29 Oct, 2010

1 commit


26 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
    move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
    For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
    the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
    by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
    any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
    it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
    but that's left for later patches.

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

    Christoph Hellwig
     

05 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • sysfs and configfs setattr functions have error cases after the generic inode's
    attributes have been changed. Fix consistency by changing the generic inode
    attributes only when it is guaranteed to succeed.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Acked-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Nick Piggin
     

28 May, 2010

1 commit


15 May, 2010

1 commit

  • 1) i_flags simply doesn't work for mount/unlink race prevention;
    we may have many links to file and rm on one of those obviously
    shouldn't prevent bind on top of another later on. To fix it
    right way we need to mark _dentry_ as unsuitable for mounting
    upon; new flag (DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT) is protected by d_flags and
    i_mutex on the inode in question. Set it (with dont_mount(dentry))
    in unlink/rmdir/etc., check (with cant_mount(dentry)) in places
    in namespace.c that used to check for S_DEAD. Setting S_DEAD
    is still needed in places where we used to set it (for directories
    getting killed), since we rely on it for readdir/rmdir race
    prevention.

    2) rename()/mount() protection has another bogosity - we unhash
    the target before we'd checked that it's not a mountpoint. Fixed.

    3) ancient bogosity in pivot_root() - we locked i_mutex on the
    right directory, but checked S_DEAD on the different (and wrong)
    one. Noticed and fixed.

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Al Viro
     

30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

14 Jan, 2010

1 commit


11 Sep, 2009

1 commit


01 May, 2009

2 commits

  • configfs_depend_item() recursively locks all inodes mutex from configfs root to
    the target item, which makes lockdep unhappy. The purpose of this recursive
    locking is to ensure that the item tree can be safely parsed and that the target
    item, if found, is not about to leave.

    This patch reworks configfs_depend_item() locking using configfs_dirent_lock.
    Since configfs_dirent_lock protects all changes to the configfs_dirent tree, and
    protects tagging of items to be removed, this lock can be used instead of the
    inodes mutex lock chain.
    This needs that the check for dependents be done atomically with
    CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING tagging.

    Now lockdep looks happy with configfs.

    [ Lifted the setting of s_type into configfs_new_dirent() to satisfy the
    atomic setting of CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING -- Joel ]

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     
  • When attaching default groups (subdirs) of a new group (in mkdir() or
    in configfs_register()), configfs recursively takes inode's mutexes
    along the path from the parent of the new group to the default
    subdirs. This is needed to ensure that the VFS will not race with
    operations on these sub-dirs. This is safe for the following reasons:

    - the VFS allows one to lock first an inode and second one of its
    children (The lock subclasses for this pattern are respectively
    I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD);
    - from this rule any inode path can be recursively locked in
    descending order as long as it stays under a single mountpoint and
    does not follow symlinks.

    Unfortunately lockdep does not know (yet?) how to handle such
    recursion.

    I've tried to use Peter Zijlstra's lock_set_subclass() helper to
    upgrade i_mutexes from I_MUTEX_CHILD to I_MUTEX_PARENT when we know
    that we might recursively lock some of their descendant, but this
    usage does not seem to fit the purpose of lock_set_subclass() because
    it leads to several i_mutex locked with subclass I_MUTEX_PARENT by
    the same task.

    >From inside configfs it is not possible to serialize those recursive
    locking with a top-level one, because mkdir() and rmdir() are already
    called with inodes locked by the VFS. So using some
    mutex_lock_nest_lock() is not an option.

    I am proposing two solutions:
    1) one that wraps recursive mutex_lock()s with
    lockdep_off()/lockdep_on().
    2) (as suggested earlier by Peter Zijlstra) one that puts the
    i_mutexes recursively locked in different classes based on their
    depth from the top-level config_group created. This
    induces an arbitrary limit (MAX_LOCK_DEPTH - 2 == 46) on the
    nesting of configfs default groups whenever lockdep is activated
    but this limit looks reasonably high. Unfortunately, this also
    isolates VFS operations on configfs default groups from the others
    and thus lowers the chances to detect locking issues.

    Nobody likes solution 1), which I can understand.

    This patch implements solution 2). However lockdep is still not happy with
    configfs_depend_item(). Next patch reworks the locking of
    configfs_depend_item() and finally makes lockdep happy.

    [ Note: This hides a few locking interactions with the VFS from lockdep.
    That was my big concern, because we like lockdep's protection. However,
    the current state always dumps a spurious warning. The locking is
    correct, so I tell people to ignore the warning and that we'll keep
    our eyes on the locking to make sure it stays correct. With this patch,
    we eliminate the warning. We do lose some of the lockdep protections,
    but this only means that we still have to keep our eyes on the locking.
    We're going to do that anyway. -- Joel ]

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     

22 Apr, 2009

1 commit

  • I observed the following build warning with fs/configfs/symlink.c:

    fs/configfs/symlink.c: In function 'configfs_symlink':
    fs/configfs/symlink.c:138: warning: 'target_item' may be used uninitialized in this function

    Here is a small fix for this.

    Cc: Patrick Mochel
    Cc: Balbir Singh
    Cc: Sachin P Sant
    Signed-Off-By: Subrata Modak
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Subrata Modak
     

28 Mar, 2009

1 commit


05 Feb, 2009

1 commit


03 Feb, 2009

1 commit

  • When attaching default groups (subdirs) of a new group (in mkdir() or
    in configfs_register()), configfs recursively takes inode's mutexes
    along the path from the parent of the new group to the default
    subdirs. This is needed to ensure that the VFS will not race with
    operations on these sub-dirs. This is safe for the following reasons:

    - the VFS allows one to lock first an inode and second one of its
    children (The lock subclasses for this pattern are respectively
    I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD);
    - from this rule any inode path can be recursively locked in
    descending order as long as it stays under a single mountpoint and
    does not follow symlinks.

    Unfortunately lockdep does not know (yet?) how to handle such
    recursion.

    I've tried to use Peter Zijlstra's lock_set_subclass() helper to
    upgrade i_mutexes from I_MUTEX_CHILD to I_MUTEX_PARENT when we know
    that we might recursively lock some of their descendant, but this
    usage does not seem to fit the purpose of lock_set_subclass() because
    it leads to several i_mutex locked with subclass I_MUTEX_PARENT by
    the same task.

    >From inside configfs it is not possible to serialize those recursive
    locking with a top-level one, because mkdir() and rmdir() are already
    called with inodes locked by the VFS. So using some
    mutex_lock_nest_lock() is not an option.

    I am proposing two solutions:
    1) one that wraps recursive mutex_lock()s with
    lockdep_off()/lockdep_on().
    2) (as suggested earlier by Peter Zijlstra) one that puts the
    i_mutexes recursively locked in different classes based on their
    depth from the top-level config_group created. This
    induces an arbitrary limit (MAX_LOCK_DEPTH - 2 == 46) on the
    nesting of configfs default groups whenever lockdep is activated
    but this limit looks reasonably high. Unfortunately, this alos
    isolates VFS operations on configfs default groups from the others
    and thus lowers the chances to detect locking issues.

    This patch implements solution 1).

    Solution 2) looks better from lockdep's point of view, but fails with
    configfs_depend_item(). This needs to rework the locking
    scheme of configfs_depend_item() by removing the variable lock recursion
    depth, and I think that it's doable thanks to the configfs_dirent_lock.
    For now, let's stick to solution 1).

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Acked-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Joel Becker
     

22 Jan, 2009

1 commit


06 Jan, 2009

1 commit


23 Oct, 2008

1 commit


23 Aug, 2008

1 commit


01 Aug, 2008

7 commits

  • configfs_mkdir() creates a new item by calling its parent's
    ->make_item/group() functions. Once that object is created,
    configfs_mkdir() calls try_module_get() on the new item's module. If it
    succeeds, the module owning the new item cannot be unloaded, and
    configfs is safe to reference the item.

    If the item and the subsystem it belongs to are part of the same module,
    the subsystem is also pinned. This is the common case.

    However, if the subsystem is made up of multiple modules, this may not
    pin the subsystem. Thus, it would be possible to unload the toplevel
    subsystem module while there is still a child item. Thus, we now
    try_module_get() the subsystem's module. This only really affects
    children of the toplevel subsystem group. Deeper children already have
    their parents pinned.

    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Joel Becker
     
  • When checking for user-created elements under an item to be removed by rmdir(),
    configfs_detach_prep() counts fake configfs_dirents created by dir_open() as
    user-created and fails when finding one. It is however perfectly valid to remove
    a directory that is open.

    Simply make configfs_detach_prep() skip fake configfs_dirent, like it already
    does for attributes, and like detach_groups() does.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Louis Rilling
     
  • Once a new configfs directory is created by configfs_attach_item() or
    configfs_attach_group(), a failure in the remaining initialization steps leads
    to removing a directory which inode the VFS may have already accessed.

    This commit adds the necessary inode locking to safely remove configfs
    directories while cleaning up after a failure. As an advantage, the locking
    rules of populate_groups() and detach_groups() become the same: the caller must
    have the group's inode mutex locked.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Louis Rilling
     
  • process 1: process 2:
    configfs_mkdir("A")
    attach_group("A")
    attach_item("A")
    d_instantiate("A")
    populate_groups("A")
    mutex_lock("A")
    attach_group("A/B")
    attach_item("A")
    d_instantiate("A/B")
    mkdir("A/B/C")
    do_path_lookup("A/B/C", LOOKUP_PARENT)
    ok
    lookup_create("A/B/C")
    mutex_lock("A/B")
    ok
    configfs_mkdir("A/B/C")
    ok
    attach_group("A/C")
    attach_item("A/C")
    d_instantiate("A/C")
    populate_groups("A/C")
    mutex_lock("A/C")
    attach_group("A/C/D")
    attach_item("A/C/D")
    failure
    mutex_unlock("A/C")
    detach_groups("A/C")
    nothing to do
    mkdir("A/C/E")
    do_path_lookup("A/C/E", LOOKUP_PARENT)
    ok
    lookup_create("A/C/E")
    mutex_lock("A/C")
    ok
    configfs_mkdir("A/C/E")
    ok
    detach_item("A/C")
    d_delete("A/C")
    mutex_unlock("A")
    detach_groups("A")
    mutex_lock("A/B")
    detach_group("A/B")
    detach_groups("A/B")
    nothing since no _default_ group
    detach_item("A/B")
    mutex_unlock("A/B")
    d_delete("A/B")
    detach_item("A")
    d_delete("A")

    Two bugs:

    1/ "A/B/C" and "A/C/E" are created, but never removed while their parent are
    removed in the end. The same could happen with symlink() instead of mkdir().

    2/ "A" and "A/C" inodes are not locked while detach_item() is called on them,
    which may probably confuse VFS.

    This commit fixes 1/, tagging new directories with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING before
    building the inode and instantiating the dentry, and validating the whole
    group+default groups hierarchy in a second pass by clearing
    CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING.
    mkdir(), symlink(), lookup(), and dir_open() simply return -ENOENT if
    called in (or linking to) a directory tagged with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING. This
    does not prevent userspace from calling stat() successfuly on such directories,
    but this prevents userspace from adding (children to | symlinking from/to |
    read/write attributes of | listing the contents of) not validated items. In
    other words, userspace will not interact with the subsystem on a new item until
    the new item creation completes correctly.
    It was first proposed to re-use CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR instead of a new
    flag CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING, but this generated conflicts when checking the
    target of a new symlink: a valid target directory in the middle of attaching
    a new user-created child item could be wrongly detected as being attached.

    2/ is fixed by next commit.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Louis Rilling
     
  • On a similar pattern as mkdir() vs rmdir(), a failing symlink() may make rmdir()
    fail for the symlink's parent and the symlink's target as well.

    failing symlink() making target's rmdir() fail:

    process 1: process 2:
    symlink("A/S" -> "B")
    allow_link()
    create_link()
    attach to "B" links list
    rmdir("B")
    detach_prep("B")
    error because of new link
    configfs_create_link("A", "S")
    error (eg -ENOMEM)

    failing symlink() making parent's rmdir() fail:

    process 1: process 2:
    symlink("A/D/S" -> "B")
    allow_link()
    create_link()
    attach to "B" links list
    configfs_create_link("A/D", "S")
    make_dirent("A/D", "S")
    rmdir("A")
    detach_prep("A")
    detach_prep("A/D")
    error because of "S"
    create("S")
    error (eg -ENOMEM)

    We cannot use the same solution as for mkdir() vs rmdir(), since rmdir() on the
    target cannot wait on the i_mutex of the new symlink's parent without risking a
    deadlock (with other symlink() or sys_rename()). Instead we define a global
    mutex protecting all configfs symlinks attachment, so that rmdir() can avoid the
    races above.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Louis Rilling
     
  • The rule for configfs symlinks is that symlinks always point to valid
    config_items, and prevent the target from being removed. However,
    configfs_symlink() only checks that it can grab a reference on the target item,
    without ensuring that it remains alive until the symlink is correctly attached.

    This patch makes configfs_symlink() fail whenever the target is being removed,
    using the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING flag set by configfs_detach_prep() and
    protected by configfs_dirent_lock.

    This patch introduces a similar (weird?) behavior as with mkdir failures making
    rmdir fail: if symlink() races with rmdir() of the parent directory (or its
    youngest user-created ancestor if parent is a default group) or rmdir() of the
    target directory, and then fails in configfs_create(), this can make the racing
    rmdir() fail despite the concerned directory having no user-created entry (resp.
    no symlink pointing to it or one of its default groups) in the end.
    This behavior is fixed in later patches.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Louis Rilling
     
  • We now use PTR_ERR() in the ->make_item() and ->make_group() operations.
    Folks including configfs.h need err.h.

    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Joel Becker
     

18 Jul, 2008

2 commits


15 Jul, 2008

7 commits

  • When allow_link() succeeds but create_link() fails, the subsystem is not
    informed of the failure.

    This patch fixes this by calling drop_link() on create_link() failures.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     
  • The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
    return a new item/group. A return of NULL signifies an error. Because
    of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

    Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
    when these operations fail. This patch adds that ability by changing the
    ->make_item/group() ops to return an int.

    Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Joel Becker
     
  • When fixing the rename() vs rmdir() deadlock, we stopped locking default groups'
    inodes in configfs_detach_prep(), letting racing mkdir() in default groups
    proceed concurrently. This enables races like below happen, which leads to a
    failing mkdir() making rmdir() fail, despite the group to remove having no
    user-created directory under it in the end.

    process A: process B:
    /* PWD=A/B */
    mkdir("C")
    make_item("C")
    attach_group("C")
    rmdir("A")
    detach_prep("A")
    detach_prep("B")
    error because of "C"
    return -ENOTEMPTY
    attach_group("C/D")
    error (eg -ENOMEM)
    return -ENOMEM

    This patch prevents such scenarii by making rmdir() wait as long as
    detach_prep() fails because a racing mkdir() is in the middle of attach_group().
    To achieve this, mkdir() sets a flag CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR in parent's
    configfs_dirent before calling attach_group(), and clears the flag once
    attach_group() is done. detach_prep() fails with -EAGAIN whenever the flag is
    hit and returns the guilty inode's mutex so that rmdir() can wait on it.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     
  • This patch fixes the deadlock between racing sys_rename() and configfs_rmdir().

    The idea is to avoid locking i_mutexes of default groups in
    configfs_detach_prep(), and rely instead on the new configfs_dirent_lock to
    protect against configfs_dirent's linkage mutations. To ensure that an mkdir()
    racing with rmdir() will not create new items in a to-be-removed default group,
    we make configfs_new_dirent() check for the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING flag right
    before linking the new dirent, and return error if the flag is set. This makes
    racing mkdir()/symlink()/dir_open() fail in places where errors could already
    happen, resp. in (attach_item()|attach_group())/create_link()/new_dirent().

    configfs_depend() remains safe since it locks all the path from configfs root,
    and is thus mutually exclusive with rmdir().

    An advantage of this is that now detach_groups() unconditionnaly takes the
    default groups i_mutex, which makes it more consistent with populate_groups().

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     
  • This patch makes configfs_new_dirent return negative error code instead of NULL,
    which will be useful in the next patch to differentiate ENOMEM from ENOENT.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     
  • Symlinks to a config_item are listed under its configfs_dirent s_links, but the
    list mutations are not protected by any common lock.

    This patch uses the configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to add the necessary
    protection.

    Note: we should also protect the list_empty() test in configfs_detach_prep() but
    1/ the lock should not be released immediately because nothing would prevent the
    list from being filled after a successful list_empty() test, making the problem
    tricky,
    2/ this will be solved by the rmdir() vs rename() deadlock bugfix.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     
  • This patch introduces configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to protect configfs_dirent
    traversals against linkage mutations (add/del/move). This will allow
    configfs_detach_prep() to avoid locking i_mutexes.

    Locking rules for configfs_dirent linkage mutations are the same plus the
    requirement of taking configfs_dirent_lock. For configfs_dirent walking, one can
    either take appropriate i_mutex as before, or take configfs_dirent_lock.

    The spinlock could actually be a mutex, but the critical sections are either
    O(1) or should not be too long (default groups walking in last patch).

    ChangeLog:
    - Clarify the comment on configfs_dirent_lock usage
    - Move sd->s_element init before linking the new dirent
    - In lseek(), do not release configfs_dirent_lock before the dirent is
    relinked.

    Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

    Louis Rilling
     

30 Apr, 2008

2 commits

  • __FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

    Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Harvey Harrison
     
  • Add a new BDI capability flag: BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB. If this flag is
    set, then don't update the per-bdi writeback stats from
    test_set_page_writeback() and test_clear_page_writeback().

    Misc cleanups:

    - convert bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() and friends to static inline functions
    - create a flag that includes all three dirty/writeback related flags,
    since almst all users will want to have them toghether

    Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Miklos Szeredi
     

15 Feb, 2008

2 commits

  • * Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
    vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

    * Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

    * Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc:
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Steven French
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jan Blunck
     
  • This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
    reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
    that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

    Together with the other patches of this series
    - it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
    pairs
    - it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
    struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
    - it reduces the overall code size:

    without patch series:
    text data bss dec hex filename
    5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinux

    with patch series:
    text data bss dec hex filename
    5320026 858418 715768 6894212 693284 vmlinux

    This patch:

    Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Casey Schaufler
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jan Blunck
     

26 Jan, 2008

2 commits

  • configfs_register_subsystem() with default_groups triggers recursive locking.
    it seems that mutex_lock_nested is needed.

    =============================================
    [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
    2.6.24-rc6 #145
    ---------------------------------------------
    swapper/1 is trying to acquire lock:
    (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [] configfs_add_file+0x2e/0x70

    but task is already holding lock:
    (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

    other info that might help us debug this:
    1 lock held by swapper/1:
    #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

    stack backtrace:
    Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc6 #145
    [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
    [] show_trace+0x12/0x20
    [] dump_stack+0x6e/0x80
    [] __lock_acquire+0xe62/0x1120
    [] lock_acquire+0x82/0xa0
    [] mutex_lock_nested+0x98/0x2e0
    [] configfs_add_file+0x2e/0x70
    [] configfs_create_file+0x2c/0x40
    [] configfs_attach_item+0x139/0x220
    [] configfs_attach_group+0x14/0x140
    [] configfs_attach_group+0xc9/0x140
    [] configfs_register_subsystem+0xc6/0x130
    [] init_netconsole+0x2b6/0x300
    [] kernel_init+0x142/0x320
    [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
    =======================

    Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Joonwoo Park
     
  • configfs_register_subsystem() with default_groups triggers recursive locking.
    it seems that mutex_lock_nested is needed.

    =============================================
    [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
    2.6.24-rc6 #141
    ---------------------------------------------
    swapper/1 is trying to acquire lock:
    (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [] configfs_attach_group+0x4f/0x190

    but task is already holding lock:
    (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

    other info that might help us debug this:
    1 lock held by swapper/1:
    #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

    stack backtrace:
    Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc6 #141
    [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
    [] show_trace+0x12/0x20
    [] dump_stack+0x6e/0x80
    [] __lock_acquire+0xe62/0x1120
    [] lock_acquire+0x82/0xa0
    [] mutex_lock_nested+0x98/0x2e0
    [] configfs_attach_group+0x4f/0x190
    [] configfs_register_subsystem+0xc6/0x130
    [] init_netconsole+0x2b6/0x300
    [] kernel_init+0x142/0x320
    [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
    =======================

    Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park
    Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

    Joonwoo Park