11 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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Pull exofs updates from Boaz Harrosh:
"Trivial updates to exofs for 3.15-rc1Just a few fixes sent by people"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
MAINTAINERS: Update email address for bhalevy
fs: Mark functions as static in exofs/ore_raid.c
fs: Mark function as static in exofs/super.c
04 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page. As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently. At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate. Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Bob Liu
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Luigi Semenzato
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Metin Doslu
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Roman Gushchin
Cc: Ryan Mallon
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Apr, 2014
2 commits
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Mark functions as static in exofs/ore_raid.c because they are not used
outside this file.This also eliminates the following warning in exofs/ore_raid.c:
fs/exofs/ore_raid.c:24:14: warning: no previous prototype for _raid_page_alloc [-Wmissing-prototypes]
fs/exofs/ore_raid.c:29:6: warning: no previous prototype for _raid_page_free [-Wmissing-prototypes]Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
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Mark function as static in exofs/super.c because it is not used outside
this file.This also eliminates the following warning in exofs/super.c:
fs/exofs/super.c:546:5: warning: no previous prototype \
for __alloc_dev_table[-Wmissing-prototypes]Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
24 Jan, 2014
4 commits
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In debug mode exofs is too verbose. Hiding the real problems
remove some trivial stuff.Also fix some other prints.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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If there was an error in fetching an object or extracting
inode info from attributes. Which means corrupted storage.
Let it be an empty ZERO dated directory entry so it can be
deleted. Otherwise the all directory will be inaccessible.This does not loose data, because if there is an orphan object
somewhere it will be recovered by fschk. But usually this only
means corrupted dir entry. The object was never generated and
only its link exist. This way we can delete the bad entry.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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With this minimal do nothing patch an application can open O_DIRECT
and then actually do buffered sync IO instead. But the aio API is
supported which is a good thingSigned-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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In the case of target returning OSD_ERR_PRI_CLEAR_PAGES when we
only sent for attributes don't crash on NULL bio.
This is an osd-target bug but don't crash regardlessSigned-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
23 Jan, 2014
1 commit
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At IO preparation we calculate the max pages at each device and
allocate a BIO per device of that size. The calculation was wrong
on some unaligned corner cases offset/length combination and would
make prepare return with -ENOMEM. This would be bad for pnfs-objects
that would in that case IO through MDS. And fatal for exofs were it
would fail writes with EIO.Fix it by doing the proper math, that will work in all cases. (I
ran a test with all possible offset/length combinations this time
round).Also when reading we do not need to allocate for the parity units
since we jump over them.Also lower the max_io_length to take into account the parity pages
so not to allocate BIOs bigger than PAGE_SIZECC: Stable Kernel
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
13 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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truncate_pagecache() doesn't care about old size since commit
cedabed49b39 ("vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression"). Let's drop it.Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Jul, 2013
1 commit
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Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
"Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations. In the bug fixes
category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
ia64 systems.)In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
file systems. In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
write submission code path. We also improved error checking and added
a few sanity checks.In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
mention. The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode. This allows writes to be
submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
queue). Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
i_es_lru spinlock. Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file->f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
ext4: delete unused variables
ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
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29 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
22 May, 2013
1 commit
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Currently there is no way to truncate partial page where the end
truncate point is not at the end of the page. This is because it was not
needed and the functionality was enough for file system truncate
operation to work properly. However more file systems now support punch
hole feature and it can benefit from mm supporting truncating page just
up to the certain point.Specifically, with this functionality truncate_inode_pages_range() can
be changed so it supports truncating partial page at the end of the
range (currently it will BUG_ON() if 'end' is not at the end of the
page).This commit changes the invalidatepage() address space operation
prototype to accept range to be invalidated and update all the instances
for it.We also change the block_invalidatepage() in the same way and actually
make a use of the new length argument implementing range invalidation.Actual file system implementations will follow except the file systems
where the changes are really simple and should not change the behaviour
in any way .Implementation for truncate_page_range() which will be able
to accept page unaligned ranges will follow as well.Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Hugh Dickins
24 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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__bio_for_each_segment() iterates bvecs from the specified index
instead of bio->bv_idx. Currently, the only usage is to walk all the
bvecs after the bio has been advanced by specifying 0 index.For immutable bvecs, we need to split these apart;
bio_for_each_segment() is going to have a different implementation.
This will also help document the intent of code that's using it -
bio_for_each_segment_all() is only legal to use for code that owns the
bio.Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
CC: Jens Axboe
CC: Neil Brown
CC: Boaz Harrosh
04 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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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"
23 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
14 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Same bug as fixed by Idan for write_exec was in read_exec.
Fix the io_state leak and pages state on read error.Also while at it:
The if (!pcol->read_4_write) at the error path is redundant
because all goto err; are after the if (pcol->read_4_write)
bale out.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
12 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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if ore_write() fails, we would unlock the pages of pcol, which is now
empty, rather than pcol_copy which owns the pages when ore_write() is
called. this means that no pages will actually be unlocked
(pcol.nr_pages == 0) and the writing process (more accurately, the
syncing process) will hang waiting for a writeback notification that
never comes.moreover, if ore_write() fails, pcol_free() is called for pcol, whereas
pcol_copy is the object owning the ore_io_state, thus leaking the
ore_io_state.[Boaz]
I have simplified Idan's original patch a bit, everything else still
holdsSigned-off-by: Idan Kedar
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
12 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Pull pile 2 of vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Stuff in this one - assorted fixes, lglock tidy-up, death to
lock_super().There'll be a VFS pile tomorrow (with patches from Jeff Layton,
sanitizing getname() and related parts of audit and preparing for
ESTALE fixes), but I'd rather push the stuff in this one ASAP - some
of the bugs closed here are quite unpleasant."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
vfs: bogus warnings in fs/namei.c
consitify do_mount() arguments
lglock: add DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK()
lglock: make the per_cpu locks static
lglock: remove unused DEFINE_LGLOCK_LOCKDEP()
MAX_LFS_FILESIZE definition for 64bit needs LL...
tmpfs,ceph,gfs2,isofs,reiserfs,xfs: fix fh_len checking
vfs: drop lock/unlock super
ufs: drop lock/unlock super
sysv: drop lock/unlock super
hpfs: drop lock/unlock super
fat: drop lock/unlock super
ext3: drop lock/unlock super
exofs: drop lock/unlock super
dup3: Return an error when oldfd == newfd.
fs: handle failed audit_log_start properly
fs: prevent use after free in auditing when symlink following was denied
11 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe:
"Core block IO bits for 3.7. Not a huge round this time, it contains:- First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation
and freeing.- WRITE_SAME support from Martin.
- Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes
the block size of a device.- Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards).
- A few other minor fixups."
Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew
Morton. It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit
6b2dbba8b6ac: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree").So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the
internal VM knowledge that has changed.* 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
block: makes bio_split support bio without data
scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents
scatterlist: add sg_nents
fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error
percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos
fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared
blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore
Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time
block: fix request_queue->flags initialization
block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue()
block: ioctl to zero block ranges
block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges
block: Clean up special command handling logic
block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree
block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold
block: reject invalid queue attribute values
block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()
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10 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Removed lock/unlock super.
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh
Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
09 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Pull exofs update from Boaz Harrosh:
"Just three one liners"* 'linux-next' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
pnfs_osd_xdr: Remove unused #include from pnfs_osd_xdr.h
ore: signedness bug in _sp2d_min_pg()
exofs: check for allocation failure in uri_store()
04 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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This for loop doesn't work correctly when "p" is unsigned.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
03 Oct, 2012
3 commits
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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()
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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
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Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and
from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to
handle those places with simple trivial patches.Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
for most of the code size growth in my git tree.Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
"capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process
netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed
usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
linux-next.After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
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21 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Cc: Benny Halevy
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
09 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
__bio_clone().This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
the functionality the last patch adedd.This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
CC: Jens Axboe
CC: NeilBrown
CC: Alasdair Kergon
CC: Boaz Harrosh
CC: Jeff Garzik
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
13 Aug, 2012
1 commit
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There is no memory allocation failure check in uri_store().
That can lead to NULL pointer dereference.Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
04 Aug, 2012
1 commit
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Pull exofs update from Boaz Harrosh:
"They are all mostly fixes, except the most important patch by Artem
Bityutskiy which removes the use of s_dirt. After this patch s_dirt
can be completely removed from the tree."* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
ore: Fix out-of-bounds access in _ios_obj()
exofs: Use proper max_IO calculations from ore
exofs: Fix __r4w_get_page when offset is beyond i_size
exofs: stop using s_dirt
exofs: readpage_strip: Add a BUG_ON to check for PageLocked(page)
02 Aug, 2012
5 commits
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_ios_obj() is accessed by group_index not device_table index.
The oc->comps array is only a group_full of devices at a time
it is not like ore_comp_dev() which is indexed by a global
device_table index.This did not BUG until now because exofs only uses a single
COMP for all devices. But with other FSs like PanFS this is
not true.This bug was only in the write_path, all other users were
using it correctly[This is a bug since 3.2 Kernel]
CC: Stable TreeSigned-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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exofs_max_io_pages should just use the ORE's
calculated layout->max_io_length,And avoid unnecessary BUGs, calculations made here were
also a layering violation.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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It is very common for the end of the file to be unaligned on
stripe size. But since we know it's beyond file's end then
the XOR should be preformed with all zeros.Old code used to just read zeros out of the OSD devices, which is a great
waist. But what scares me more about this situation is that, we now have
pages attached to the file's mapping that are beyond i_size. I don't
like the kind of bugs this calls for.Fix both birds, by returning a global ZERO_PAGE, if offset is beyond
i_size.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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Exofs has the '->write_super()' handler and makes some use of the '->s_dirt'
superblock flag, but it really needs neither of them because it never sets
's_dirt' to one which means the VFS never calls its '->write_super()' handler.
Thus, remove both.Note, I am trying to remove both 's_dirt' and 'write_super()' from VFS
altogether once all users are gone.Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
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readpage_strip can be called from several code paths all of which
require that the page be locked before any operations are carried
out.Since we export the exofs_readpage callback to the VFS, add a
BUG_ON to check for PageLocked(page) to make sure that this
understanding is never compromised.Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
24 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Pull the big VFS changes from Al Viro:
"This one is *big* and changes quite a few things around VFS. What's in there:- the first of two really major architecture changes - death to open
intents.The former is finally there; it was very long in making, but with
Miklos getting through really hard and messy final push in
fs/namei.c, we finally have it. Unlike his variant, this one
doesn't introduce struct opendata; what we have instead is
->atomic_open() taking preallocated struct file * and passing
everything via its fields.Instead of returning struct file *, it returns -E... on error, 0
on success and 1 in "deal with it yourself" case (e.g. symlink
found on server, etc.).See comments before fs/namei.c:atomic_open(). That made a lot of
goodies finally possible and quite a few are in that pile:
->lookup(), ->d_revalidate() and ->create() do not get struct
nameidata * anymore; ->lookup() and ->d_revalidate() get lookup
flags instead, ->create() gets "do we want it exclusive" flag.With the introduction of new helper (kern_path_locked()) we are rid
of all struct nameidata instances outside of fs/namei.c; it's still
visible in namei.h, but not for long. Come the next cycle,
declaration will move either to fs/internal.h or to fs/namei.c
itself. [me, miklos, hch]- The second major change: behaviour of final fput(). Now we have
__fput() done without any locks held by caller *and* not from deep
in call stack.That obviously lifts a lot of constraints on the locking in there.
Moreover, it's legal now to call fput() from atomic contexts (which
has immediately simplified life for aio.c). We also don't need
anti-recursion logics in __scm_destroy() anymore.There is a price, though - the damn thing has become partially
asynchronous. For fput() from normal process we are guaranteed
that pending __fput() will be done before the caller returns to
userland, exits or gets stopped for ptrace.For kernel threads and atomic contexts it's done via
schedule_work(), so theoretically we might need a way to make sure
it's finished; so far only one such place had been found, but there
might be more.There's flush_delayed_fput() (do all pending __fput()) and there's
__fput_sync() (fput() analog doing __fput() immediately). I hope
we won't need them often; see warnings in fs/file_table.c for
details. [me, based on task_work series from Oleg merged last
cycle]- sync series from Jan
- large part of "death to sync_supers()" work from Artem; the only
bits missing here are exofs and ext4 ones. As far as I understand,
those are going via the exofs and ext4 trees resp.; once they are
in, we can put ->write_super() to the rest, along with the thread
calling it.- preparatory bits from unionmount series (from dhowells).
- assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place, as usual.
This is not the last pile for this cycle; there's at least jlayton's
ESTALE work and fsfreeze series (the latter - in dire need of fixes,
so I'm not sure it'll make the cut this cycle). I'll probably throw
symlink/hardlink restrictions stuff from Kees into the next pile, too.
Plus there's a lot of misc patches I hadn't thrown into that one -
it's large enough as it is..."* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (127 commits)
ext4: switch EXT4_IOC_RESIZE_FS to mnt_want_write_file()
btrfs: switch btrfs_ioctl_balance() to mnt_want_write_file()
switch dentry_open() to struct path, make it grab references itself
spufs: shift dget/mntget towards dentry_open()
zoran: don't bother with struct file * in zoran_map
ecryptfs: don't reinvent the wheels, please - use struct completion
don't expose I_NEW inodes via dentry->d_inode
tidy up namei.c a bit
unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method
quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
...
20 Jul, 2012
3 commits
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The read-4-write pages are locked in address ascending order.
But where unlocked in a way easiest for coding. Fix that,
locks should be released in opposite order of locking, .i.e
descending address order.I have not hit this dead-lock. It was found by inspecting the
dbug print-outs. I suspect there is an higher lock at caller that
protects us, but fix it regardless.Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
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Do to OOM situations the ore might fail to allocate all resources
needed for IO of the full request. If some progress was possible
it would proceed with a partial/short request, for the sake of
forward progress.Since this crashes NFS-core and exofs is just fine without it just
remove this contraption, and fail.TODO:
Support real forward progress with some reserved allocations
of resources, such as mem pools and/or bio_sets[Bug since 3.2 Kernel]
CC: Stable Tree
CC: Benny Halevy
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh -
In RAID_5/6 We used to not permit an IO that it's end
byte is not stripe_size aligned and spans more than one stripe.
.i.e the caller must check if after submission the actual
transferred bytes is shorter, and would need to resubmit
a new IO with the remainder.Exofs supports this, and NFS was supposed to support this
as well with it's short write mechanism. But late testing has
exposed a CRASH when this is used with none-RPC layout-drivers.The change at NFS is deep and risky, in it's place the fix
at ORE to lift the limitation is actually clean and simple.
So here it is below.The principal here is that in the case of unaligned IO on
both ends, beginning and end, we will send two read requests
one like old code, before the calculation of the first stripe,
and also a new site, before the calculation of the last stripe.
If any "boundary" is aligned or the complete IO is within a single
stripe. we do a single read like before.The code is clean and simple by splitting the old _read_4_write
into 3 even parts:
1._read_4_write_first_stripe
2. _read_4_write_last_stripe
3. _read_4_write_executeAnd calling 1+3 at the same place as before. 2+3 before last
stripe, and in the case of all in a single stripe then 1+2+3
is preformed additively.Why did I not think of it before. Well I had a strike of
genius because I have stared at this code for 2 years, and did
not find this simple solution, til today. Not that I did not try.This solution is much better for NFS than the previous supposedly
solution because the short write was dealt with out-of-band after
IO_done, which would cause for a seeky IO pattern where as in here
we execute in order. At both solutions we do 2 separate reads, only
here we do it within a single IO request. (And actually combine two
writes into a single submission)NFS/exofs code need not change since the ORE API communicates the new
shorter length on return, what will happen is that this case would not
occur anymore.hurray!!
[Stable this is an NFS bug since 3.2 Kernel should apply cleanly]
CC: Stable Tree
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh
14 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.Signed-off-by: Al Viro