Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.
Convert
ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)
to
ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
throughout the kernel
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently /proc/locks is shown with a proc_read function, but its behavior
is rather complex as it has to manually handle current offset and buffer
length. On the other hand, files that show objects from lists can be
easily reimplemented using the sequential files and the seq_list_XXX()
helpers.
This saves (as usually) 16 lines of code and more than 200 from
the .text section.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: no externs in C]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fixes]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/locks.c: use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() in
posix_locks_deadlock() and get_locks_status()
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The combination of S_ISGID bit set and S_IXGRP bit unset is used to mark the
inode as "mandatory lockable" and there's a macro for this check called
MANDATORY_LOCK(inode). However, fs/locks.c and some filesystems still perform
the explicit i_mode checking. Besides, Andrew pointed out, that this macro is
buggy itself, as it dereferences the inode arg twice.
Convert this macro into static inline function and switch its users to it,
making the code shorter and more readable.
The __mandatory_lock() helper is to be used in places where the IS_MANDLOCK()
for superblock is already known to be true.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This code is run under lock_kernel(), which is dropped during
sleeping operations, so the following race is possible:
CPU1: CPU2:
vfs_setlease(); vfs_setlease();
lock_kernel();
lock_kernel(); /* spin */
generic_setlease():
...
for (before = ...)
/* here we found some lease after
* which we will insert the new one
*/
fl = locks_alloc_lock();
/* go to sleep in this allocation and
* drop the BKL
*/
generic_setlease():
...
for (before = ...)
/* here we find the "before" pointing
* at the one we found on CPU1
*/
->fl_change(my_before, arg);
lease_modify();
locks_free_lock();
/* and we freed it */
...
unlock_kernel();
locks_insert_lock(before, fl);
/* OOPS! We have just tried to add the lease
* at the tail of already removed one
*/
The similar races are already handled in other code - all the
allocations are performed before any checks/updates.
Thanks to Kamalesh Babulal for testing and for a bug report on an
earlier version.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This routine deletes all the elements from the list
with the "while (!list_empty())" loop, and we already
have a list_first_entry() macro to help it look nicer :)
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
This comment wasn't updated when lease support was added, and it makes
essentially the same mistake that the code made before a recent bugfix.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
When the flock_lock_file() is called to change the flock
from F_RDLCK to F_WRLCK or vice versa the existing flock
can be removed without appropriate warning.
Look:
for_each_lock(inode, before) {
struct file_lock *fl = *before;
if (IS_POSIX(fl))
break;
if (IS_LEASE(fl))
continue;
if (filp != fl->fl_file)
continue;
if (request->fl_type == fl->fl_type)
goto out;
found = 1;
locks_delete_lock(before); <<<<<< !
break;
}
if after this point the subsequent locks_alloc_lock() will
fail the return code will be -ENOMEM, but the existing lock
is already removed.
This is a known feature that such "re-locking" is not atomic,
but in the racy case the file should stay locked (although by
some other process), but in this case the file will be unlocked.
The proposal is to prepare the lock in advance keeping no chance
to fail in the future code.
Found during making the flocks pid-namespaces aware.
(Note: Thanks to Reuben Farrelly for finding a bug in an earlier version
of this patch.)
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-linuxkernel@reub.net>
There's no need for another variable local to this loop; we can use the
variable (of the same name!) already declared at the top of the function,
and not used till later (at which point it's initialized, so this is safe).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The first argument to posix_locks_conflict() is meant to be a lock request,
and the second a lock from an inode's lock request. It doesn't really
make a difference which order you call them in, since the only
asymmetric test in posix_lock_conflict() is the check whether the second
argument is a posix lock--and every caller already does that check for
some reason.
But may as well fix posix_test_lock() to call posix_locks_conflict()
with the arguments in the same order as everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The inode->i_flock list contains the leases, flocks and posix
locks in the specified order. However, the flocks are added in
the head of this list thus hiding the leases from F_GETLEASE
command, from time_out_leases() and other code that expects
the leases to come first.
The following example will demonstrate this:
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
static void show_lease(int fd)
{
int res;
res = fcntl(fd, F_GETLEASE);
switch (res) {
case F_RDLCK:
printf("Read lease\n");
break;
case F_WRLCK:
printf("Write lease\n");
break;
case F_UNLCK:
printf("No leases\n");
break;
default:
printf("Some shit\n");
break;
}
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd, res;
fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
if (fd == -1) {
perror("Can't open file");
return 1;
}
res = fcntl(fd, F_SETLEASE, F_WRLCK);
if (res == -1) {
perror("Can't set lease");
return 1;
}
show_lease(fd);
if (flock(fd, LOCK_SH) == -1) {
perror("Can't flock shared");
return 1;
}
show_lease(fd);
return 0;
}
The first call to show_lease() will show the write lease set, but
the second will show no leases.
Fix the flock adding so that the leases always stay in the head
of this list.
Found during making the flocks pid-namespaces aware.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make it a little more clear that this is the default implementation for
the setleast operation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.
This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Thanks to Doug Chapman for pointing out that the comment here is
inconsistent with the function prototype.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Since posix_test_lock(), like fcntl() and ->lock(), indicates absence or
presence of a conflict lock by setting fl_type to, respectively, F_UNLCK
or something other than F_UNLCK, the return value is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Currently leases are only kept locally, so there's no way for a distributed
filesystem to enforce them against multiple clients. We're particularly
interested in the case of nfsd exporting a cluster filesystem, in which
case nfsd needs cluster-coherent leases in order to implement delegations
correctly.
Also add some documentation.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
We've been using the convention that vfs_foo is the function that calls
a filesystem-specific foo method if it exists, or falls back on a
generic method if it doesn't; thus vfs_foo is what is called when some
other part of the kernel (normally lockd or nfsd) wants to get a lock,
whereas foo is what filesystems call to use the underlying local
functionality as part of their lock implementation.
So rename setlease to vfs_setlease (which will call a
filesystem-specific setlease after a later patch) and __setlease to
setlease.
Also, vfs_setlease need only be GPL-exported as long as it's only needed
by lockd and nfsd.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Share more code between setlease (used by nfsd) and fcntl.
Also some minor cleanup.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Return the newly allocated structure as the return value instead of
using a struct ** parameter.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
There's no point trying to return an error in these cases, which all represent
bugs in the callers.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
clarify that break_lease() checks for presence of any lock, not just leases.
Signed-off-by: David M. Richter <richterd@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In 9d6a8c5c21 we changed posix_test_lock
to modify its single file_lock argument instead of taking separate input
and output arguments. This makes it no longer safe to set the output
lock's fl_type to F_UNLCK before looking for a conflict, since that
means searching for a conflict against a lock with type F_UNLCK.
This fixes a regression which causes F_GETLK to incorrectly report no
conflict on most filesystems (including any filesystem that doesn't do
its own locking).
Also fix posix_lock_to_flock() to copy the lock type. This isn't
strictly necessary, since the caller already does this; but it seems
less likely to cause confusion in the future.
Thanks to Doug Chapman for the bug report.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'server-cluster-locking-api' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
gfs2: nfs lock support for gfs2
lockd: add code to handle deferred lock requests
lockd: always preallocate block in nlmsvc_lock()
lockd: handle test_lock deferrals
lockd: pass cookie in nlmsvc_testlock
lockd: handle fl_grant callbacks
lockd: save lock state on deferral
locks: add fl_grant callback for asynchronous lock return
nfsd4: Convert NFSv4 to new lock interface
locks: add lock cancel command
locks: allow {vfs,posix}_lock_file to return conflicting lock
locks: factor out generic/filesystem switch from setlock code
locks: factor out generic/filesystem switch from test_lock
locks: give posix_test_lock same interface as ->lock
locks: make ->lock release private data before returning in GETLK case
locks: create posix-to-flock helper functions
locks: trivial removal of unnecessary parentheses
I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
SLAB.
I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.
I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free. That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.
Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).
There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.
This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acquiring a lock on a cluster filesystem may require communication with
remote hosts, and to avoid blocking lockd or nfsd threads during such
communication, we allow the results to be returned asynchronously.
When a ->lock() call needs to block, the file system will return
-EINPROGRESS, and then later return the results with a call to the
routine in the fl_grant field of the lock_manager_operations struct.
This differs from the case when ->lock returns -EAGAIN to a blocking
lock request; in that case, the filesystem calls fl_notify when the lock
is granted, and the caller retries the original lock. So while
fl_notify is merely a hint to the caller that it should retry, fl_grant
actually communicates the final result of the lock operation (with the
lock already acquired in the succesful case).
Therefore fl_grant takes a lock, a status and, for the test lock case, a
conflicting lock. We also allow fl_grant to return an error to the
filesystem, to handle the case where the fl_grant requests arrives after
the lock manager has already given up waiting for it.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Lock managers need to be able to cancel pending lock requests. In the case
where the exported filesystem manages its own locks, it's not sufficient just
to call posix_unblock_lock(); we need to let the filesystem know what's
happening too.
We do this by adding a new fcntl lock command: FL_CANCELLK. Some day this
might also be made available to userspace applications that could benefit from
an asynchronous locking api.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The nfsv4 protocol's lock operation, in the case of a conflict, returns
information about the conflicting lock.
It's unclear how clients can use this, so for now we're not going so far as to
add a filesystem method that can return a conflicting lock, but we may as well
return something in the local case when it's easy to.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Factor out the code that switches between generic and filesystem-specific lock
methods; eventually we want to call this from lock managers (lockd and nfsd)
too; currently they only call the generic methods.
This patch does that for all the setlk code.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Factor out the code that switches between generic and filesystem-specific lock
methods; eventually we want to call this from lock managers (lockd and nfsd)
too; currently they only call the generic methods.
This patch does that for test_lock.
Note that this hasn't been necessary until recently, because the few
filesystems that define ->lock() (nfs, cifs...) aren't exportable via NFS.
However GFS (and, in the future, other cluster filesystems) need to implement
their own locking to get cluster-coherent locking, and also want to be able to
export locking to NFS (lockd and NFSv4).
So we accomplish this by factoring out code such as this and exporting it for
the use of lockd and nfsd.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
posix_test_lock() and ->lock() do the same job but have gratuitously
different interfaces. Modify posix_test_lock() so the two agree,
simplifying some code in the process.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
The file_lock argument to ->lock is used to return the conflicting lock
when found. There's no reason for the filesystem to return any private
information with this conflicting lock, but nfsv4 is.
Fix nfsv4 client, and modify locks.c to stop calling fl_release_private
for it in this case.
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: "Trond Myklebust" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>"
Factor out a bit of messy code by creating posix-to-flock counterparts
to the existing flock-to-posix helper functions.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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>
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg to processes. By
tracking the destination processes using struct pid instead of pid_t we make
the interface safe from all potential pid wrap around problems.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fcntl(F_SETSIG) no longer works on leases because
lease_release_private_callback() gets called as the lease is copied in
order to initialise it.
The problem is that lease_alloc() performs an unnecessary initialisation,
which sets the lease_manager_ops. Avoid the problem by allocating the
target lease structure using locks_alloc_lock().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Change posix_lock_file_conf(), and flock_lock_file() so that if called
with an F_UNLCK argument, and the FL_EXISTS flag they will indicate
whether or not any locks were actually freed by returning 0 or -ENOENT.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We can now make posix_locks_deadlock() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Pass the POSIX lock owner ID to the flush operation.
This is useful for filesystems which don't want to store any locking state
in inode->i_flock but want to handle locking/unlocking POSIX locks
internally. FUSE is one such filesystem but I think it possible that some
network filesystems would need this also.
Also add a flag to indicate that a POSIX locking request was generated by
close(), so filesystems using the above feature won't send an extra locking
request in this case.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
locks_remove_posix() can use posix_lock_file() instead of doing the lock
removal by hand. posix_lock_file() now does exacly the same.
The comment about pids no longer applies, posix_lock_file() takes only the
owner into account.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
posix_lock_file() always allocates new locks in advance, even if it's easy to
determine that no allocations will be needed.
Optimize these cases:
- FL_ACCESS flag is set
- Unlocking the whole range
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
posix_lock_file() was too cautious, failing operations on OOM, even if they
didn't actually require an allocation.
This has the disadvantage, that a failing unlock on process exit could lead to
a memory leak. There are two possibilites for this:
- filesystem implements .lock() and calls back to posix_lock_file(). On
cleanup of files_struct locks_remove_posix() is called which should remove all
locks belonging to files_struct. However if filesystem calls
posix_lock_file() which fails, then those locks will never be freed.
- if a file is closed while a lock is blocked, then after acquiring
fcntl_setlk() will undo the lock. But this unlock itself might fail on OOM,
again possibly leaking the lock.
The solution is to move the checking of the allocations until after it is sure
that they will be needed. This will solve the above problem since unlock will
always succeed unless it splits an existing region.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes the steal_locks() function.
steal_locks() doesn't work correctly with any filesystem that does it's own
lock management, including NFS, CIFS, etc.
In addition it has weird semantics on local filesystems in case tasks
sharing file-descriptor tables are doing POSIX locking operations in
parallel to execve().
The steal_locks() function has an effect on applications doing:
clone(CLONE_FILES)
/* in child */
lock
execve
lock
POSIX locks acquired before execve (by "child", "parent" or any further
task sharing files_struct) will after the execve be owned exclusively by
"child".
According to Chris Wright some LSB/LTP kind of suite triggers without the
stealing behavior, but there's no known real-world application that would
also fail.
Apps using NPTL are not affected, since all other threads are killed before
execve.
Apps using LinuxThreads are only affected if they
- have multiple threads during exec (LinuxThreads doesn't kill other
threads, the app may do it with pthread_kill_other_threads_np())
- rely on POSIX locks being inherited across exec
Both conditions are documented, but not their interaction.
Apps using clone() natively are affected if they
- use clone(CLONE_FILES)
- rely on POSIX locks being inherited across exec
The above scenarios are unlikely, but possible.
If the patch is vetoed, there's a plan B, that involves mostly keeping the
weird stealing semantics, but changing the way lock ownership is handled so
that network and local filesystems work consistently.
That would add more complexity though, so this solution seems to be
preferred by most people.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If flock_lock_file() failed to allocate flock with locks_alloc_lock()
then "error = 0" is returned. Need to return some non-zero.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
