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Eric W. Biederman 4b75de8615 fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0.
Before the make_empty_dir_inode calls were introduce into proc, sysfs,
and sysctl those directories when stated reported an i_size of 0.
make_empty_dir_inode started reporting an i_size of 2.  At least one
userspace application depended on stat returning i_size of 0.  So
modify make_empty_dir_inode to cause an i_size of 0 to be reported for
these directories.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2015-08-12 15:28:45 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 1dc51b8288 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
  that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
  stuff).  UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle).  9P fixes.
  fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups".  The
  file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
  fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge.   - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
  9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
  p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
  9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
  dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
  block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
  dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
  dax: Add block size note to documentation
  fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
  fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
  fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
  vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
  namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
  make simple_positive() public
  ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
  pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
  remove the pointless include of lglock.h
  fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
  xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
  fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
  fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
  ...
2015-07-04 19:36:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0cbee99269 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago and far away when user namespaces where young it was realized
  that allowing fresh mounts of proc and sysfs with only user namespace
  permissions could violate the basic rule that only root gets to decide
  if proc or sysfs should be mounted at all.

  Some hacks were put in place to reduce the worst of the damage could
  be done, and the common sense rule was adopted that fresh mounts of
  proc and sysfs should allow no more than bind mounts of proc and
  sysfs.  Unfortunately that rule has not been fully enforced.

  There are two kinds of gaps in that enforcement.  Only filesystems
  mounted on empty directories of proc and sysfs should be ignored but
  the test for empty directories was insufficient.  So in my tree
  directories on proc, sysctl and sysfs that will always be empty are
  created specially.  Every other technique is imperfect as an ordinary
  directory can have entries added even after a readdir returns and
  shows that the directory is empty.  Special creation of directories
  for mount points makes the code in the kernel a smidge clearer about
  it's purpose.  I asked container developers from the various container
  projects to help test this and no holes were found in the set of mount
  points on proc and sysfs that are created specially.

  This set of changes also starts enforcing the mount flags of fresh
  mounts of proc and sysfs are consistent with the existing mount of
  proc and sysfs.  I expected this to be the boring part of the work but
  unfortunately unprivileged userspace winds up mounting fresh copies of
  proc and sysfs with noexec and nosuid clear when root set those flags
  on the previous mount of proc and sysfs.  So for now only the atime,
  read-only and nodev attributes which userspace happens to keep
  consistent are enforced.  Dealing with the noexec and nosuid
  attributes remains for another time.

  This set of changes also addresses an issue with how open file
  descriptors from /proc/<pid>/ns/* are displayed.  Recently readlink of
  /proc/<pid>/fd has been triggering a WARN_ON that has not been
  meaningful since it was added (as all of the code in the kernel was
  converted) and is not now actively wrong.

  There is also a short list of issues that have not been fixed yet that
  I will mention briefly.

  It is possible to rename a directory from below to above a bind mount.
  At which point any directory pointers below the renamed directory can
  be walked up to the root directory of the filesystem.  With user
  namespaces enabled a bind mount of the bind mount can be created
  allowing the user to pick a directory whose children they can rename
  to outside of the bind mount.  This is challenging to fix and doubly
  so because all obvious solutions must touch code that is in the
  performance part of pathname resolution.

  As mentioned above there is also a question of how to ensure that
  developers by accident or with purpose do not introduce exectuable
  files on sysfs and proc and in doing so introduce security regressions
  in the current userspace that will not be immediately obvious and as
  such are likely to require breaking userspace in painful ways once
  they are recognized"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  vfs: Remove incorrect debugging WARN in prepend_path
  mnt: Update fs_fully_visible to test for permanently empty directories
  sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point
  sysfs: Add support for permanently empty directories to serve as mount points.
  kernfs: Add support for always empty directories.
  proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mount points
  sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.
  fs: Add helper functions for permanently empty directories.
  vfs: Ignore unlocked mounts in fs_fully_visible
  mnt: Modify fs_fully_visible to deal with locked ro nodev and atime
  mnt: Refactor the logic for mounting sysfs and proc in a user namespace
2015-07-03 15:20:57 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman fbabfd0f4e fs: Add helper functions for permanently empty directories.
To ensure it is safe to mount proc and sysfs I need to check if
filesystems that are mounted on top of them are mounted on truly empty
directories.  Given that some directories can gain entries over time,
knowing that a directory is empty right now is insufficient.

Therefore add supporting infrastructure for permantently empty
directories that proc and sysfs can use when they create mount points
for filesystems and fs_fully_visible can use to test for permanently
empty directories to ensure that nothing will be gained by mounting a
fresh copy of proc or sysfs.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2015-07-01 10:36:37 -05:00
Al Viro dc3f4198ea make simple_positive() public
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-06-23 18:02:01 -04:00
Al Viro ecc087ff14 new helper: free_page_put_link()
similar to kfree_put_link()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-05-11 08:13:13 -04:00
Al Viro 5f2c4179e1 switch ->put_link() from dentry to inode
only one instance looks at that argument at all; that sole
exception wants inode rather than dentry.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-05-11 08:13:12 -04:00
Al Viro 6e77137b36 don't pass nameidata to ->follow_link()
its only use is getting passed to nd_jump_link(), which can obtain
it from current->nameidata

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-05-10 22:20:15 -04:00
Al Viro 680baacbca new ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions
a) instead of storing the symlink body (via nd_set_link()) and returning
an opaque pointer later passed to ->put_link(), ->follow_link() _stores_
that opaque pointer (into void * passed by address by caller) and returns
the symlink body.  Returning ERR_PTR() on error, NULL on jump (procfs magic
symlinks) and pointer to symlink body for normal symlinks.  Stored pointer
is ignored in all cases except the last one.

Storing NULL for opaque pointer (or not storing it at all) means no call
of ->put_link().

b) the body used to be passed to ->put_link() implicitly (via nameidata).
Now only the opaque pointer is.  In the cases when we used the symlink body
to free stuff, ->follow_link() now should store it as opaque pointer in addition
to returning it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-05-10 22:19:45 -04:00
Al Viro 61ba64fc07 libfs: simple_follow_link()
let "fast" symlinks store the pointer to the body into ->i_link and
use simple_follow_link for ->follow_link()

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-05-10 22:18:20 -04:00
David Howells dea655c28a VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
library helpers called by filesystem drivers on their own inodes

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-15 15:06:58 -04:00
David Howells e36cb0b89c VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry)
Convert the following where appropriate:

 (1) S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_symlink(dentry).

 (2) S_ISREG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_reg(dentry).

 (3) S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_dir(dentry).  This is actually more
     complicated than it appears as some calls should be converted to
     d_can_lookup() instead.  The difference is whether the directory in
     question is a real dir with a ->lookup op or whether it's a fake dir with
     a ->d_automount op.

In some circumstances, we can subsume checks for dentry->d_inode not being
NULL into this, provided we the code isn't in a filesystem that expects
d_inode to be NULL if the dirent really *is* negative (ie. if we're going to
use d_inode() rather than d_backing_inode() to get the inode pointer).

Note that the dentry type field may be set to something other than
DCACHE_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL in the case of unionmount, where the VFS
manages the fall-through from a negative dentry to a lower layer.  In such a
case, the dentry type of the negative union dentry is set to the same as the
type of the lower dentry.

However, if you know d_inode is not NULL at the call site, then you can use
the d_is_xxx() functions even in a filesystem.

There is one further complication: a 0,0 chardev dentry may be labelled
DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE rather than DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE.  Strictly, this was
intended for special directory entry types that don't have attached inodes.

The following perl+coccinelle script was used:

use strict;

my @callers;
open($fd, 'git grep -l \'S_IS[A-Z].*->d_inode\' |') ||
    die "Can't grep for S_ISDIR and co. callers";
@callers = <$fd>;
close($fd);
unless (@callers) {
    print "No matches\n";
    exit(0);
}

my @cocci = (
    '@@',
    'expression E;',
    '@@',
    '',
    '- S_ISLNK(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
    '+ d_is_symlink(E)',
    '',
    '@@',
    'expression E;',
    '@@',
    '',
    '- S_ISDIR(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
    '+ d_is_dir(E)',
    '',
    '@@',
    'expression E;',
    '@@',
    '',
    '- S_ISREG(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
    '+ d_is_reg(E)' );

my $coccifile = "tmp.sp.cocci";
open($fd, ">$coccifile") || die $coccifile;
print($fd "$_\n") || die $coccifile foreach (@cocci);
close($fd);

foreach my $file (@callers) {
    chomp $file;
    print "Processing ", $file, "\n";
    system("spatch", "--sp-file", $coccifile, $file, "--in-place", "--no-show-diff") == 0 ||
	die "spatch failed";
}

[AV: overlayfs parts skipped]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-02-22 11:38:41 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 0ae45f63d4 vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option
Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode.  This mode
causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the
in-memory version of the inode.  The on-disk times will only get
updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time
related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or
(c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory.

This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a
crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call.

For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a
preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces
writes to the inode table.  The repeated 4k writes to a single block
will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk
drives.  Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode
table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation
latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which
is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example).

Google-Bug-Id: 18297052

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-02-05 02:45:00 -05:00
Al Viro 946e51f2bf move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping d_alias
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-11-03 15:20:29 -05:00
Jeff Layton e6f5c78930 locks: plumb a "priv" pointer into the setlease routines
In later patches, we're going to add a new lock_manager_operation to
finish setting up the lease while still holding the i_lock.  To do
this, we'll need to pass a little bit of info in the fcntl setlease
case (primarily an fasync structure). Plumb the extra pointer into
there in advance of that.

We declare this pointer as a void ** to make it clear that this is
private info, and that the caller isn't required to set this unless
the lm_setup specifically requires it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2014-10-07 14:06:12 -04:00
Jeff Layton 1c994a0909 locks: consolidate "nolease" routines
GFS2 and NFS have setlease routines that always just return -EINVAL.
Turn that into a generic routine that can live in fs/libfs.c.

Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: <cluster-devel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2014-09-09 16:01:36 -04:00
Fabian Frederick ac13a829f6 fs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsync
Description by Jan Kara:
 "A lot of older filesystems don't properly flush volatile disk caches
  on fsync(2) which can lead to loss of fsynced data after power failure.

This patch makes generic_file_fsync() issue proper cache flush to fix the
problem.  Sysadmin can use /sys/devices/.../cache_type to tell the system
it should not send the cache flush."

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke ifdef]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:55 -07:00
Al Viro b26d4cd385 consolidate simple ->d_delete() instances
Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it.
Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of
their duplicates

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-15 22:04:17 -05:00
Al Viro 6987843ff7 take anon inode allocation to libfs.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-09 00:16:27 -05:00
Al Viro 87dc800be2 new helper: kfree_put_link()
duplicated to hell and back...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-24 23:34:49 -04:00
Al Viro 12f3887222 libfs: get exports to definitions of objects being exported...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-24 23:34:49 -04:00
Al Viro 74931da7a6 make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set ->s_d_op
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-14 17:43:25 +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
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
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
Yanchuan Nian ca1868309b vfs: fix kerneldoc for generic_fh_to_parent()
Wrong function name in the kerneldoc description of generic_fh_to_parent().

Signed-off-by: Yanchuan Nian <ycnian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-09-05 10:59:30 +02:00
David Howells 9249e17fe0 VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()
Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called.  They could also be passed to the
compare function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:38:34 +04:00
Al Viro 00cd8dd3bf stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:32 +04:00
Linus Torvalds 26fe575028 vfs: make it possible to access the dentry hash/len as one 64-bit entry
This allows comparing hash and len in one operation on 64-bit
architectures.  Right now only __d_lookup_rcu() takes advantage of this,
since that is the case we care most about.

The use of anonymous struct/unions hides the alternate 64-bit approach
from most users, the exception being a few cases where we initialize a
'struct qstr' with a static initializer.  This makes the problematic
cases use a new QSTR_INIT() helper function for that (but initializing
just the name pointer with a "{ .name = xyzzy }" initializer remains
valid, as does just copying another qstr structure).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-10 19:54:35 -07:00
Al Viro 640946f203 dentry leak in simple_fill_super() failure exit
d_genocide() does _not_ evict dentries; it just removes extra ref
pinning each of those.  Normally it's followed by shrinking the
tree (it's done just before generic_shutdown_super() by kill_litter_super()),
but in case of simple_fill_super() nothing of that kind will follow.
Just do shrink_dcache_parent() manually.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-04-09 01:39:22 -04:00
Stephen Boyd 20955e891d libfs: add simple_open()
debugfs and a few other drivers use an open-coded version of
simple_open() to pass a pointer from the file to the read/write file
ops.  Add support for this simple case to libfs so that we can remove
the many duplicate copies of this simple function.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-05 15:25:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 11bcb32848 The following text was taken from the original review request:
"[PATCH 0/3] RFC - module.h usage cleanups in fs/ and lib/"
 		https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/29/589
 --
 
 Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really
 need it.
 
 These are trivial in scope vs. the work done previously.  We now have
 things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or
 subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible.  What is
 remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a
 single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir.
 
 Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from
 independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed.
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Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really
  need it.

  These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously.  We now have
  things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or
  subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible.  What is
  remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a
  single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir.

  Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from
  independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed."

Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups
(including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull).

* tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
  includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
2012-03-24 10:24:31 -07:00
Al Viro 2452992aa7 make simple_pin_fs() pass MS_KERNMOUNT - it's a kernel-internal one
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:44 -04:00
Al Viro 48fde701af switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:35 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker 630d9c4727 fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-28 19:31:58 -05:00
Al Viro ff01bb4832 fs: move code out of buffer.c
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c.  Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it.  Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.

Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving.  The small comment replacing it says enough.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:07 -05:00
Miklos Szeredi bfe8684869 filesystems: add set_nlink()
Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-11-02 12:53:43 +01:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov 32096ea1aa vfs: fix dentry leak in simple_fill_super()
put dentry if inode allocation failed, d_genocide() cannot release it

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-11-02 12:53:42 +01:00
Al Viro 841590ce16 fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
On ramfs and other simple_rename() users IN_DELETE_SELF is not generated
for victim of overwriting rename() if it's is a directory.  Works on
most of the local filesystems and really trivial to fix...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-22 19:42:11 -04:00
Josef Bacik 02c24a8218 fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
Thanks,

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:59 -04:00
Al Viro a4464dbc0c Make ->d_sb assign-once and always non-NULL
New helper (non-exported, fs/internal.h-only): __d_alloc(sb, name).
Allocates dentry, sets its ->d_sb to given superblock and sets
->d_op accordingly.  Old d_alloc(NULL, name) callers are converted
to that (all of them know what superblock they want).  d_alloc()
itself is left only for parent != NULl case; uses __d_alloc(),
inserts result into the list of parent's children.

Note that now ->d_sb is assign-once and never NULL *and*
->d_parent is never NULL either.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:17 -04:00
Akinobu Mita f7b88631a8 fs/libfs.c: fix simple_attr_write() on 32bit machines
Assume that /sys/kernel/debug/dummy64 is debugfs file created by
debugfs_create_x64().

	# cd /sys/kernel/debug
	# echo 0x1234567812345678 > dummy64
	# cat dummy64
	0x0000000012345678

	# echo 0x80000000 > dummy64
	# cat dummy64
	0xffffffff80000000

A value larger than INT_MAX cannot be written to the debugfs file created
by debugfs_create_u64 or debugfs_create_x64 on 32bit machine.  Because
simple_attr_write() uses simple_strtol() for the conversion.

To fix this, use simple_strtoll() instead.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-19 22:09:30 -07:00
Al Viro c74a1cbb3c pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:03:43 -05:00
Nick Piggin fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin 2fd6b7f507 fs: dcache scale subdirs
Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is
provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin da5029563a fs: dcache scale d_unhashed
Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping
DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin fe15ce446b fs: change d_delete semantics
Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching
advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent,
and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback
anyway.

This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning
much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:18 +11:00
Al Viro 51139adac9 convert get_sb_pseudo() users
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:16:33 -04:00
Al Viro 7de9c6ee3e new helper: ihold()
Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig c37650161a fs: add sync_inode_metadata
Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation.  A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:18:19 -04:00
Joel Becker a33f13efe0 libfs: Fix shift bug in generic_check_addressable()
generic_check_addressable() erroneously shifts pages down by a block
factor when it should be shifting up.  To prevent overflow, we shift
blocks down to pages.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-09-10 08:42:48 -07:00
Patrick J. LoPresti 30ca22c70e ext3/ext4: Factor out disk addressability check
As part of adding support for OCFS2 to mount huge volumes, we need to
check that the sector_t and page cache of the system are capable of
addressing the entire volume.

An identical check already appears in ext3 and ext4.  This patch moves
the addressability check into its own function in fs/libfs.c and
modifies ext3 and ext4 to invoke it.

[Edited to -EINVAL instead of BUG_ON() for bad blocksize_bits -- Joel]

Signed-off-by: Patrick LoPresti <lopresti@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2010-09-10 08:41:42 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 2c27c65ed0 check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok
Make sure we check the truncate constraints early on in ->setattr by adding
those checks to inode_change_ok.  Also clean up and document inode_change_ok
to make this obvious.

As a fallout we don't have to call inode_newsize_ok from simple_setsize and
simplify it down to a truncate_setsize which doesn't return an error.  This
simplifies a lot of setattr implementations and means we use truncate_setsize
almost everywhere.  Get rid of fat_setsize now that it's trivial and mark
ext2_setsize static to make the calling convention obvious.

Keep the inode_newsize_ok in vmtruncate for now as all callers need an
audit for its removal anyway.

Note: setattr code in ecryptfs doesn't call inode_change_ok at all and
needs a deeper audit, but that is left for later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig eef2380c18 default to simple_setattr
With the new truncate sequence every filesystem that wants to support file
size changes on disk needs to implement its own ->setattr.  So instead
of calling inode_setattr which supports size changes call into a simple
method that doesn't support this.  simple_setattr is almost what we
want except that it does not mark the inode dirty after changes.  Given
that marking the inode dirty is a no-op for the simple in-memory filesystems
that use simple_setattr currently just add the mark_inode_dirty call.

Also add a WARN_ON for the presence of a truncate method to simple_setattr
to catch new instances of it during the transition period.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:36 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 6a1a90ad1b rename generic_setattr
Despite its name it's now a generic implementation of ->setattr, but
rather a helper to copy attributes from a struct iattr to the inode.
Rename it to setattr_copy to reflect this fact.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:35 -04:00
Roberto Sassu 7d683a0999 wrong type for 'magic' argument in simple_fill_super()
It's used to superblock ->s_magic, which is unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-04 17:16:28 -04:00
npiggin@suse.de 7bb46a6734 fs: introduce new truncate sequence
Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than
setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence
from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is
deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced
previously should be used.

simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement
the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted
to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go
away.

simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion
of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache).

To implement the new truncate sequence:
- filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in
  the setattr method rather than ->truncate.
- vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in
  the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed
  in the fs code.
- convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin,
  cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed
  variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous).
- inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function
  to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode.
- make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence.

Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called
until i_size has already changed.  This means it is not allowed to fail the
call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic
code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had
no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle
block deallocation).

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:15:33 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 1b061d9247 rename the generic fsync implementations
We don't name our generic fsync implementations very well currently.
The no-op implementation for in-memory filesystems currently is called
simple_sync_file which doesn't make too much sense to start with,
the the generic one for simple filesystems is called simple_fsync
which can lead to some confusion.

This patch renames the generic file fsync method to generic_file_fsync
to match the other generic_file_* routines it is supposed to be used
with, and the no-op implementation to noop_fsync to make it obvious
what to expect.  In addition add some documentation for both methods.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:06:06 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 7ea8085910 drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:05:02 -04:00
Jiri Slaby 6a727b43be FS / libfs: Implement simple_write_to_buffer
It will be used in suspend code and serves as an easy wrap around
copy_from_user. Similar to simple_read_from_buffer, it takes care
of transfers with proper lengths depending on available and count
parameters and advances ppos appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-05-10 23:08:17 +02:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit 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>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Boaz Harrosh 193cf4b991 libfs: Unexport and kill simple_prepare_write
Remove the EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL of simple_prepare_write

Collapse simple_prepare_write into it's only caller, though
making it simpler and clearer to understand.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 13:00:17 -05:00
Boaz Harrosh ad2a722f19 libfs: Open code simple_commit_write into only user
* simple_commit_write was only called by simple_write_end.
  Open coding it makes it tiny bit less heavy on the arithmetic and
  much more readable.

* While at it use zero_user() for clearing a partial page.
* While at it add a docbook comment for simple_write_end.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 13:00:16 -05:00
H Hartley Sweeten ef26ca97e8 libfs: move EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name
The EXPORT_SYMBOL for d_alloc_name is in fs/libfs.c but the function
is in fs/dcache.c.  Move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to the line immediately
after the closing function brace line in fs/dcache.c as mentioned
in Documentation/CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:48 -05:00
Wu Fengguang 05cc0cee69 libfs: return error code on failed attr set
Currently all simple_attr.set handlers return 0 on success and negative
codes on error.  Fix simple_attr_write() to return these error codes.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24 07:47:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 14be27460e libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
Impact: have simple_read_from_buffer conform to standards

It was brought to my attention by Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso, and H.
Peter Anvin that a read from userspace should only return -EFAULT if
nothing was actually read.

Looking at the simple_read_from_buffer I noticed that this function does
not conform to that rule.  This patch fixes that function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplification suggested by hpa]
[hpa@zytor.com: fix count==0 handling]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24 07:47:22 -04:00
Jeff Layton 89a4eb4b66 vfs: make get_sb_pseudo set s_maxbytes to value that can be cast to signed
get_sb_pseudo sets s_maxbytes to ~0ULL which becomes negative when cast
to a signed value.  Fix it to use MAX_LFS_FILESIZE which casts properly
to a positive signed value.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:12 -07:00
Al Viro d5aacad548 New helper - simple_fsync()
writes associated buffers, then does sync_inode() to write
the inode itself (and to make it clean).  Depends on
->write_inode() honouring the second argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:11 -04:00
Al Viro 6f5bbff9a1 Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:40 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 76791ab2d5 kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set()
Impact: cleanup

We want to remove percpu.h from rcupdate.h (for upcoming kmemtrace
changes), but this is not possible currently without breaking the
build because fs.h has an implicit include file depedency: it
uses PAGE_SIZE but does not include asm/page.h which defines it.

This problem gets masked in practice because most fs.h using sites
use rcupreempt.h (and other headers) which includes percpu.h which
brings in asm/page.h indirectly.

We cannot add asm/page.h to asm/fs.h because page.h is not an
exported header.

Move simple_transaction_set() to the other simple-transaction
file helpers in fs/libfs.c.

This removes the include file hell and also reduces
kernel size a bit.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <1237898630.25315.83.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 12:09:09 +02:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu a3ec947c85 vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void
simple_set_mnt() is defined as returning 'int' but always returns 0.
Callers assume simple_set_mnt() never fails and don't properly cleanup if
it were to _ever_ fail.  For instance, get_sb_single() and get_sb_nodev()
should:

        up_write(sb->s_unmount);
        deactivate_super(sb);

if simple_set_mnt() fails.

Since simple_set_mnt() never fails, would be cleaner if it did not
return anything.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
Al Viro 3ba13d179e constify dentry_operations: rest
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 520c853466 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  inotify: fix type errors in interfaces
  fix breakage in reiserfs_new_inode()
  fix the treatment of jfs special inodes
  vfs: remove duplicate code in get_fs_type()
  add a vfs_fsync helper
  sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify
  zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
  inode->i_op is never NULL
  ntfs: don't NULL i_op
  isofs check for NULL ->i_op in root directory is dead code
  affs: do not zero ->i_op
  kill suid bit only for regular files
  vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
2009-01-05 18:32:06 -08:00
Al Viro 56ff5efad9 zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
... and don't bother in callers.  Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.

i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
Nick Piggin 54566b2c15 fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.

The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).

This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
  untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
  just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
  logic.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-04 13:33:20 -08:00
Nick Piggin 4e02ed4b4a fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write
Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 4ea3ada295 [PATCH] new helper: d_obtain_alias
The calling conventions of d_alloc_anon are rather unfortunate for all
users, and it's name is not very descriptive either.

Add d_obtain_alias as a new exported helper that drops the inode
reference in the failure case, too and allows to pass-through NULL
pointers and inodes to allow for tail-calls in the export operations.

Incidentally this helper already existed as a private function in
libfs.c as exportfs_d_alloc so kill that one and switch the callers
to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:00 -04:00
Alex Nixon 3971e1a917 VFS: increase pseudo-filesystem block size to PAGE_SIZE
This commit:

    commit ba52de123d
    Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Date:   Wed Sep 27 01:50:49 2006 -0700

        [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure

caused the block size used by pseudo-filesystems to decrease from
PAGE_SIZE to 1024 leading to a doubling of the number of context switches
during a kernbench run.

Signed-off-by: Alex Nixon <Alex.Nixon@citrix.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 6d1029b563 add kernel-doc for simple_read_from_buffer and memory_read_from_buffer
Add kernel-doc comments describing simple_read_from_buffer and
memory_read_from_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04 10:40:07 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 93b071139a introduce memory_read_from_buffer()
This patch introduces memory_read_from_buffer().

The only difference between memory_read_from_buffer() and
simple_read_from_buffer() is which address space the function copies to.

simple_read_from_buffer copies to user space memory.
memory_read_from_buffer copies to normal memory.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <linux-driver@qlogic.com>
Cc: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06 11:29:11 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 74bedc4d56 libfs: rename simple_attr_close to simple_attr_release
simple_attr_close implementes ->release so it should be named accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:34 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 9261303ab7 libfs: make simple attributes interruptible
Use mutex_lock_interruptible in simple_attr_read/write.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:34 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 8b88b0998e libfs: allow error return from simple attributes
Sometimes simple attributes might need to return an error, e.g. for
acquiring a mutex interruptibly.  In fact we have that situation in
spufs already which is the original user of the simple attributes.  This
patch merged the temporarily forked attributes in spufs back into the
main ones and allows to return errors.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:34 -08:00
Christoph Lameter eebd2aa355 Pagecache zeroing: zero_user_segment, zero_user_segments and zero_user
Simplify page cache zeroing of segments of pages through 3 functions

zero_user_segments(page, start1, end1, start2, end2)

        Zeros two segments of the page. It takes the position where to
        start and end the zeroing which avoids length calculations and
	makes code clearer.

zero_user_segment(page, start, end)

        Same for a single segment.

zero_user(page, start, length)

        Length variant for the case where we know the length.

We remove the zero_user_page macro. Issues:

1. Its a macro. Inline functions are preferable.

2. The KM_USER0 macro is only defined for HIGHMEM.

   Having to treat this special case everywhere makes the
   code needlessly complex. The parameter for zeroing is always
   KM_USER0 except in one single case that we open code.

Avoiding KM_USER0 makes a lot of code not having to be dealing
with the special casing for HIGHMEM anymore. Dealing with
kmap is only necessary for HIGHMEM configurations. In those
configurations we use KM_USER0 like we do for a series of other
functions defined in highmem.h.

Since KM_USER0 is depends on HIGHMEM the existing zero_user_page
function could not be a macro. zero_user_* functions introduced
here can be be inline because that constant is not used when these
functions are called.

Also extract the flushing of the caches to be outside of the kmap.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nfs and ntfs build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ntfs build some more]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
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>
2008-02-05 09:44:13 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 2596110a39 exportfs: add new methods
Add the guts for the new filesystem API to exportfs.

There's now a fh_to_dentry method that returns a dentry for the object looked
for given a filehandle fragment, and a fh_to_parent operation that returns the
dentry for the encoded parent directory in case the file handle contains it.

There are default implementations for these methods that only take a callback
for an nfs-enhanced iget variant and implement the rest of the semantics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 08:13:19 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 4a239427f2 make fs/libfs.c:simple_commit_write() static
simple_commit_write() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00
Nick Piggin afddba49d1 fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).

[mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
[dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:55 -07:00
Ronni Nielsen 0f8952c2fa fs/libfs.c: >80 columns line break fix
Signed-off-by: Ronni Nielsen <theronni@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-09 06:44:57 +02:00
Jeff Layton 1a1c9bb433 inode numbering: change libfs sb creation routines to avoid collisions with their root inodes
This patch makes it so that simple_fill_super and get_sb_pseudo assign their
root inodes to be number 1.  It also fixes up a couple of callers of
simple_fill_super that were passing in files arrays that had an index at
number 1, and adds a warning for any caller that sends in such an array.

It would have been nice to have made it so that it wasn't possible to make
such a collision, but some callers need to be able to control what inode
number their entries get, so I think this is the best that can be done.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:16 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 759b9775c2 [PATCH] shmem and simple const super_operations
shmem's super_operations were missed from the recent const-ification;
and simple_fill_super()'s, which can share with get_sb_pseudo()'s.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05 07:57:51 -08:00
Nick Piggin 955eff5acc [PATCH] fs: fix libfs data leak
simple_prepare_write leaks uninitialised kernel data.  This happens because
the it leaves an uninitialised "hole" over the part of the page that the
write is expected to go to.  This is fine, but it then marks the page
uptodate, which means a concurrent read can come in and copy the
uninitialised memory into userspace before it written to.

Fix it by simply marking it uptodate in simple_commit_write instead, after
the hole has been filled in.  This could theoretically break an fs that
uses simple_prepare_write and not simple_commit_write, and that relies on
the incorrect simple_prepare_write behaviour.  Luckily, none of those
exists in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:15 -08:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek ee9b6d61a2 [PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const
This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:47 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 92e1d5be91 [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2
Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek 0f7fc9e4d0 [PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path
This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:41 -08:00
Dave Hansen d8c76e6f45 [PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper
This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
more hooks.  This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Dave Hansen 9a53c3a783 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: unlink: monitor i_nlink
When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a write must be
performed in order to drop the inode from the filesystem.

We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted r/o between
the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write occurs.

So, add a little helper function to do the decrements.  We'll tie into it in a
bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00
Pekka J Enberg c0d92cbc58 [PATCH] libfs: remove page up-to-date check from simple_readpage
Remove the unnecessary PageUptodate check from simple_readpage.  The only
two callers for ->readpage that don't have explicit PageUptodate check are
read_cache_pages and page_cache_read which operate on newly allocated pages
which don't have the flag set.

[akpm: use the allegedly-faster clear_page(), too]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:06 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o ba52de123d [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o 8e18e2941c [PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private
The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86.  (It would be more on an x86_64 system).  This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).

This patch:

The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer.  Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer.  This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.

[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:17 -07:00