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Tang Chen
ef277c73ca page migration: fix wrong comment in address_space_operations.migratepage()
There is no parameter "sync" in address_space_operations->migratepage().
It should be migrate_mode.  And the comment is for MIGRATE_ASYNC.

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:23 -07:00
Mel Gorman
b45972265f mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account
Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03 16:07:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
790eac5640 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
  i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
  ->d_hash/->d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
  stuff all over the place."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  Document ->tmpfile()
  ext4: ->tmpfile() support
  vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
  lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
  block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
  locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
  locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
  locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
  locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
  locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
  locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
  locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
  ...
2013-07-03 09:10:19 -07:00
Jie Liu
46a1c2c7ae vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset
to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the
simliar things at ceph_llseek().

To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute()
public accessible so that we can call it directly from the
underlying file systems.

Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.

[AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back]

v2->v1:
- Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute()
- Call lseek_execute() in ceph->llseek()

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-03 16:23:27 +04:00
Linus Torvalds
9e239bb939 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.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

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()
  ...
2013-07-02 09:39:34 -07:00
Jeff Layton
3999e49364 locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
Currently, the hashing that the locking code uses to add these values
to the blocked_hash is simply calculated using fl_owner field. That's
valid in most cases except for server-side lockd, which validates the
owner of a lock based on fl_owner and fl_pid.

In the case where you have a small number of NFS clients doing a lot
of locking between different processes, you could end up with all
the blocked requests sitting in a very small number of hash buckets.

Add a new lm_owner_key operation to the lock_manager_operations that
will generate an unsigned long to use as the key in the hashtable.
That function is only implemented for server-side lockd, and simply
XORs the fl_owner and fl_pid.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:45 +04:00
Jeff Layton
139ca04ee5 locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
Testing has shown that iterating over the blocked_list for deadlock
detection turns out to be a bottleneck. In order to alleviate that,
begin the process of turning it into a hashtable. We start by turning
the fl_link into a hlist_node and the global lists into hlists. A later
patch will do the conversion of the blocked_list to a hashtable.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:44 +04:00
Jeff Layton
1c8c601a8c locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
Having a global lock that protects all of this code is a clear
scalability problem. Instead of doing that, move most of the code to be
protected by the i_lock instead. The exceptions are the global lists
that the ->fl_link sits on, and the ->fl_block list.

->fl_link is what connects these structures to the
global lists, so we must ensure that we hold those locks when iterating
over or updating these lists.

Furthermore, sound deadlock detection requires that we hold the
blocked_list state steady while checking for loops. We also must ensure
that the search and update to the list are atomic.

For the checking and insertion side of the blocked_list, push the
acquisition of the global lock into __posix_lock_file and ensure that
checking and update of the  blocked_list is done without dropping the
lock in between.

On the removal side, when waking up blocked lock waiters, take the
global lock before walking the blocked list and dequeue the waiters from
the global list prior to removal from the fl_block list.

With this, deadlock detection should be race free while we minimize
excessive file_lock_lock thrashing.

Finally, in order to avoid a lock inversion problem when handling
/proc/locks output we must ensure that manipulations of the fl_block
list are also protected by the file_lock_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:42 +04:00
Jeff Layton
1cb3601259 locks: comment cleanups and clarifications
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:39 +04:00
Jeff Layton
1a9e64a711 cifs: use posix_unblock_lock instead of locks_delete_block
commit 66189be74 (CIFS: Fix VFS lock usage for oplocked files) exported
the locks_delete_block symbol. There's already an exported helper
function that provides this capability however, so make cifs use that
instead and turn locks_delete_block back into a static function.

Note that if fl->fl_next == NULL then this lock has already been through
locks_delete_block(), so we should be OK to ignore an ENOENT error here
and simply not retry the lock.

Cc: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:38 +04:00
Jeff Layton
f891a29f46 locks: drop the unused filp argument to posix_unblock_lock
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:37 +04:00
Al Viro
68d70d03f8 constify rw_verify_area()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:34 +04:00
Al Viro
1bf9d14dff new helper: fixed_size_llseek()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:26 +04:00
Al Viro
0b3fca1fd1 kill find_inode_number()
the only remaining caller (in ncpfs) is guaranteed to return 0 -
we only hit it if we'd just checked that there's no dentry with
such name.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:20 +04:00
Al Viro
f4e0c30c19 allow the temp files created by open() to be linked to
O_TMPFILE | O_CREAT => linkat() with AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW and /proc/self/fd/<n>
as oldpath (i.e. flink()) will create a link
O_TMPFILE | O_CREAT | O_EXCL => ENOENT on attempt to link those guys

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:11 +04:00
Al Viro
60545d0d46 [O_TMPFILE] it's still short a few helpers, but infrastructure should be OK now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:10 +04:00
Al Viro
ac6614b764 [readdir] constify ->actor
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:05 +04:00
Al Viro
2233f31aad [readdir] ->readdir() is gone
everything's converted to ->iterate()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:04 +04:00
Al Viro
5ded75ec4c [readdir] convert ext3
new helper: dir_relax(inode).  Call when you are in location that will
_not_ be invalidated by directory modifications (block boundary, in case
of ext*).  Returns whether the directory has survived (dropping i_mutex
allows rmdir to kill the sucker; if it returns false to us, ->iterate()
is obviously done)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:46:49 +04:00
Al Viro
5f99f4e79a [readdir] switch dcache_readdir() users to ->iterate()
new helpers - dir_emit_dot(file, ctx, dentry), dir_emit_dotdot(file, ctx),
dir_emit_dots(file, ctx).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:46:48 +04:00
Al Viro
bb6f619b3a [readdir] introduce ->iterate(), ctx->pos, dir_emit()
New method - ->iterate(file, ctx).  That's the replacement for ->readdir();
it takes callback from ctx->actor, uses ctx->pos instead of file->f_pos and
calls dir_emit(ctx, ...) instead of filldir(data, ...).  It does *not*
update file->f_pos (or look at it, for that matter); iterate_dir() does the
update.

Note that dir_emit() takes the offset from ctx->pos (and eventually
filldir_t will lose that argument).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:46:47 +04:00
Al Viro
5c0ba4e076 [readdir] introduce iterate_dir() and dir_context
iterate_dir(): new helper, replacing vfs_readdir().

struct dir_context: contains the readdir callback (and will get more stuff
in it), embedded into whatever data that callback wants to deal with;
eventually, we'll be passing it to ->readdir() replacement instead of
(data,filldir) pair.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:46:46 +04:00
Al Viro
7995bd2871 splice: don't pass the address of ->f_pos to methods
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-20 19:02:45 +04:00
Lukas Czerner
d47992f86b mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept length
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 <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
2013-05-21 23:17:23 -04:00
Al Viro
4385bab128 make blkdev_put() return void
same story as with the previous patches - note that return
value of blkdev_close() is lost, since there's nowhere the
caller (__fput()) could return it to.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-05-07 02:16:31 -04:00
Jan Kara
5ae98f1589 fs: Fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem
When BSD process accounting is enabled and logs information to a
filesystem which gets frozen, system easily becomes unusable because
each attempt to account process information blocks. Thus e.g. every task
gets blocked in exit.

It seems better to drop accounting information (which can already happen
when filesystem is running out of space) instead of locking system up.
So we just skip the write if the filesystem is frozen.

Reported-by: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-05-04 14:57:58 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
20b4fb4852 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...
2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
Fan Du
74e3d1e17b include/linux/fs.h: disable preempt when acquire i_size_seqcount write lock
Two rt tasks bind to one CPU core.

The higher priority rt task A preempts a lower priority rt task B which
has already taken the write seq lock, and then the higher priority rt
task A try to acquire read seq lock, it's doomed to lockup.

rt task A with lower priority: call write
i_size_write                                        rt task B with higher priority: call sync, and preempt task A
  write_seqcount_begin(&inode->i_size_seqcount);    i_size_read
  inode->i_size = i_size;                             read_seqcount_begin <-- lockup here...

So disable preempt when acquiring every i_size_seqcount *write* lock will
cure the problem.

Signed-off-by: Fan Du <fan.du@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30 17:04:03 -07:00
Al Viro
599a0ac14e pipe: fold file_operations instances in one
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-04-09 14:12:58 -04:00
Al Viro
8d71db4f08 lift sb_start_write/sb_end_write out of ->aio_write()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-04-09 14:12:55 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
7f78e03513 fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
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 <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
Al Viro
dd37978c50 cache the value of file_inode() in struct file
Note that this thing does *not* contribute to inode refcount;
it's pinned down by dentry.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-01 19:48:30 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d895cb1af1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
Al Viro
7bb307e894 export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-26 02:46:11 -05:00
Al Viro
182be68478 kill f_vfsmnt
very few users left...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-26 02:46:10 -05:00
Jeff Layton
ecf3d1f1aa vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause

    server# mkdir a
    client# cd a
    server# mv a a.bak
    client# sleep 30  # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
    client# stat .
    stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle

Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
FS_REVAL_DOT set.

nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.

The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
the dcache is still valid.

Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
"weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
special casing.

[AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]

Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-26 02:46:09 -05:00
Al Viro
3dadecce20 switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-26 02:46:08 -05:00
Al Viro
496ad9aa8e new helper: file_inode(file)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Maxim Patlasov
d28574e043 mm: minor cleanup of iov_iter_single_seg_count()
The function does not modify iov_iter which 'i' points to.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2013-01-24 16:21:27 +01:00
Al Viro
21e89c0c48 Merge branch 'fscache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into for-linus 2012-12-20 18:49:14 -05:00
Alessio Igor Bogani
471667391a vfs: Remove useless function prototypes
Commit 8e22cc88d6 removes the (un)lock_super
function definitions but forgets to remove their prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:47:08 -05:00
Marco Stornelli
d30357f2f0 vfs: drop vmtruncate
Removed vmtruncate

Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 18:46:29 -05:00
David Howells
a02de96085 VFS: Make more complete truncate operation available to CacheFiles
Make a more complete truncate operation available to CacheFiles (including
security checks and suchlike) so that it can use this to clear invalidated
cache files.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20 22:05:41 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
848b81415c Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
 "Incoming:

   - lots of misc stuff

   - backlight tree updates

   - lib/ updates

   - Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes

   - checkpatch

   - rtc

   - aoe

   - more checkpoint/restart support

  I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging
  later today after which that is good to go.  A number of other things
  are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits)
  scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.
  docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output
  fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output
  docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output
  fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper
  fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present
  fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper
  procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
  tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test
  breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix
  mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  ubifs: use prandom_bytes
  mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes
  ...
2012-12-17 20:58:12 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
55985dd72a procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
This patch brings ability to print out auxiliary data associated with
file in procfs interface /proc/pid/fdinfo/fd.

In particular further patches make eventfd, evenpoll, signalfd and
fsnotify to print additional information complete enough to restore
these objects after checkpoint.

To simplify the code we add show_fdinfo callback inside struct
file_operations (as Al and Pavel are proposing).

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:27 -08:00
Andrew Morton
965c8e59cf lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"
But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6a2b60b17b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "While small this set of changes is very significant with respect to
  containers in general and user namespaces in particular.  The user
  space interface is now complete.

  This set of changes adds support for unprivileged users to create user
  namespaces and as a user namespace root to create other namespaces.
  The tyranny of supporting suid root preventing unprivileged users from
  using cool new kernel features is broken.

  This set of changes completes the work on setns, adding support for
  the pid, user, mount namespaces.

  This set of changes includes a bunch of basic pid namespace
  cleanups/simplifications.  Of particular significance is the rework of
  the pid namespace cleanup so it no longer requires sending out
  tendrils into all kinds of unexpected cleanup paths for operation.  At
  least one case of broken error handling is fixed by this cleanup.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been converted from regular files
  to magic symlinks which prevents incorrect caching by the VFS,
  ensuring the files always refer to the namespace the process is
  currently using and ensuring that the ptrace_mayaccess permission
  checks are always applied.

  The files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ have been given stable inode numbers
  so it is now possible to see if different processes share the same
  namespaces.

  Through the David Miller's net tree are changes to relax many of the
  permission checks in the networking stack to allowing the user
  namespace root to usefully use the networking stack.  Similar changes
  for the mount namespace and the pid namespace are coming through my
  tree.

  Two small changes to add user namespace support were commited here adn
  in David Miller's -net tree so that I could complete the work on the
  /proc/<pid>/ns/ files in this tree.

  Work remains to make it safe to build user namespaces and 9p, afs,
  ceph, cifs, coda, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, nfsd, ocfs2, and xfs so the
  Kconfig guard remains in place preventing that user namespaces from
  being built when any of those filesystems are enabled.

  Future design work remains to allow root users outside of the initial
  user namespace to mount more than just /proc and /sys."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (38 commits)
  proc: Usable inode numbers for the namespace file descriptors.
  proc: Fix the namespace inode permission checks.
  proc: Generalize proc inode allocation
  userns: Allow unprivilged mounts of proc and sysfs
  userns: For /proc/self/{uid,gid}_map derive the lower userns from the struct file
  procfs: Print task uids and gids in the userns that opened the proc file
  userns: Implement unshare of the user namespace
  userns: Implent proc namespace operations
  userns: Kill task_user_ns
  userns: Make create_new_namespaces take a user_ns parameter
  userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces
  userns: Allow setting a userns mapping to your current uid.
  userns: Allow chown and setgid preservation
  userns: Allow unprivileged users to create user namespaces.
  userns: Ignore suid and sgid on binaries if the uid or gid can not be mapped
  userns: fix return value on mntns_install() failure
  vfs: Allow unprivileged manipulation of the mount namespace.
  vfs: Only support slave subtrees across different user namespaces
  vfs: Add a user namespace reference from struct mnt_namespace
  ...
2012-12-17 15:44:47 -08:00
Rafael Aquini
252aa6f5be mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping
Overhaul struct address_space.assoc_mapping renaming it to
address_space.private_data and its type is redefined to void*.  By this
approach we consistently name the .private_* elements from struct
address_space as well as allow extended usage for address_space
association with other data structures through ->private_data.

Also, all users of old ->assoc_mapping element are converted to reflect
its new name and type change (->private_data).

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bbec0270bd blkdev_max_block: make private to fs/buffer.c
We really don't want to look at the block size for the raw block device
accesses in fs/block-dev.c, because it may be changing from under us.
So get rid of the max_block logic entirely, since the caller should
already have done it anyway.

That leaves the only user of this function in fs/buffer.c, so move the
whole function there and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-11-29 17:48:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1e8b33328a blockdev: remove bd_block_size_semaphore again
This reverts the block-device direct access code to the previous
unlocked code, now that fs/buffer.c no longer needs external locking.

With this, fs/block_dev.c is back to the original version, apart from a
whitespace cleanup that I didn't want to revert.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-11-29 10:52:19 -08:00