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Jens Axboe
b984679efe block: integrity checkpatch cleanups
> 80 char lines and that sort of thing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
7ba1ba12ee block: Block layer data integrity support
Some block devices support verifying the integrity of requests by way
of checksums or other protection information that is submitted along
with the I/O.

This patch implements support for generating and verifying integrity
metadata, as well as correctly merging, splitting and cloning bios and
requests that have this extra information attached.

See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
51d654e1d8 block: Globalize bio_set and bio_vec_slab
Move struct bio_set and biovec_slab definitions to bio.h so they can
be used outside of bio.c.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-03 13:21:13 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
f58ba88910 [GFS2] don't call permission()
GFS2 calls permission() to verify permissions after locks on the files
have been taken.

For this it's sufficient to call gfs2_permission() instead.  This
results in the following changes:

  - IS_RDONLY() check is not performed
  - IS_IMMUTABLE() check is not performed
  - devcgroup_inode_permission() is not called
  - security_inode_permission() is not called

IS_RDONLY() should be unnecessary anyway, as the per-mount read-only
flag should provide protection against read-only remounts during
operations.  do_gfs2_set_flags() has been fixed to perform
mnt_want_write()/mnt_drop_write() to protect against remounting
read-only.

IS_IMMUTABLE has been added to gfs2_permission()

Repeating the security checks seems to be pointless, as they don't
normally change, and if they do, it's independent of the filesystem
state.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-07-03 10:22:01 +01:00
Jonathan Corbet
a238b790d5 Call fasync() functions without the BKL
lock_kernel() calls have been pushed down into code which needs it, so
there is no need to take the BKL at this level anymore.

This work inspired and aided by Andi Kleen's unlocked_fasync() patches.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-07-02 15:06:28 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
dda6445e21 ecryptfs: fasync BKL pushdown
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-07-02 15:06:28 -06:00
Andi Kleen
9465efc9e9 Remove BKL from remote_llseek v2
- Replace remote_llseek with generic_file_llseek_unlocked (to force compilation
failures in all users)
- Change all users to either use generic_file_llseek_unlocked directly or
take the BKL around. I changed the file systems who don't use the BKL
for anything (CIFS, GFS) to call it directly. NCPFS and SMBFS and NFS
take the BKL, but explicitely in their own source now.

I moved them all over in a single patch to avoid unbisectable sections.

Open problem: 32bit kernels can corrupt fpos because its modification
is not atomic, but they can do that anyways because there's other paths who
modify it without BKL.

Do we need a special lock for the pos/f_version = 0 checks?

Trond says the NFS BKL is likely not needed, but keep it for now
until his full audit.

v2: Use generic_file_llseek_unlocked instead of remote_llseek_unlocked
    and factor duplicated code (suggested by hch)

Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Cc: swhiteho@redhat.com
Cc: sfrench@samba.org
Cc: vandrove@vc.cvut.cz

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-07-02 15:06:27 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
9c20616c38 Make FAT users happier by not deadlocking
The FAT BKL removal patch can cause deadlocks.  It turns out that the new
lock_super() calls are unneeded, remove them (as directed by Linus).

Reported-by: "Tony Luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-07-02 15:06:27 -06:00
Arnd Bergmann
b7fdf9fdd6 ocfs2-stack_user: BKL pushdown
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2008-07-02 15:06:23 -06:00
Jens Axboe
18ce3751cc Properly notify block layer of sync writes
fsync_buffers_list() and sync_dirty_buffer() both issue async writes and
then immediately wait on them. Conceptually, that makes them sync writes
and we should treat them as such so that the IO schedulers can handle
them appropriately.

This patch fixes a write starvation issue that Lin Ming reported, where
xx is stuck for more than 2 minutes because of a large number of
synchronous IO in the system:

INFO: task kjournald:20558 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this
message.
kjournald     D ffff810010820978  6712 20558      2
ffff81022ddb1d10 0000000000000046 ffff81022e7baa10 ffffffff803ba6f2
ffff81022ecd0000 ffff8101e6dc9160 ffff81022ecd0348 000000008048b6cb
0000000000000086 ffff81022c4e8d30 0000000000000000 ffffffff80247537
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff803ba6f2>] kobject_get+0x12/0x17
[<ffffffff80247537>] getnstimeofday+0x2f/0x83
[<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f
[<ffffffff8066d195>] io_schedule+0x5d/0x9f
[<ffffffff8029c1e7>] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x3f
[<ffffffff8066d3f0>] __wait_on_bit+0x40/0x6f
[<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f
[<ffffffff8066d48b>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6c/0x78
[<ffffffff80243909>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[<ffffffff8029e3ad>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x98/0xcb
[<ffffffff8030056b>] journal_commit_transaction+0x97d/0xcb6
[<ffffffff8023a676>] lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4b
[<ffffffff8030300a>] kjournald+0xc1/0x1fb
[<ffffffff802438db>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffff80302f49>] kjournald+0x0/0x1fb
[<ffffffff802437bb>] kthread+0x47/0x74
[<ffffffff8022de51>] schedule_tail+0x28/0x5d
[<ffffffff8020cac8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
[<ffffffff80243774>] kthread+0x0/0x74
[<ffffffff8020cabe>] child_rip+0x0/0x12

Lin Ming confirms that this patch fixes the issue. I've run tests with
it for the past week and no ill effects have been observed, so I'm
proposing it for inclusion into 2.6.26.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-01 09:07:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
747606464b Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-udf-2.6:
  udf: Fix regression in UDF anchor block detection
2008-06-29 12:19:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4f46accee4 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:
  [patch 2/3] vfs: dcache cleanups
  [patch 1/3] vfs: dcache sparse fixes
  [patch 3/3] vfs: make d_path() consistent across mount operations
  [patch 4/4] flock: remove unused fields from file_lock_operations
  [patch 3/4] vfs: fix ERR_PTR abuse in generic_readlink
  [patch 2/4] fs: make struct file arg to d_path const
  [patch 1/4] vfs: path_{get,put}() cleanups
  [patch for 2.6.26 4/4] vfs: utimensat(): fix write access check for futimens()
  [patch for 2.6.26 3/4] vfs: utimensat(): fix error checking for {UTIME_NOW,UTIME_OMIT} case
  [patch for 2.6.26 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW
  [patch for 2.6.26 2/4] vfs: utimensat(): be consistent with utime() for immutable and append-only files
  [PATCH] fix cgroup-inflicted breakage in block_dev.c
2008-06-29 12:14:37 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
f17172e001 [GFS2] Fix module building
Two lines missed from the previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:40:57 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
31fcba00fe [GFS2] Remove all_list from lock_dlm
I discovered that we had a list onto which every lock_dlm
lock was being put. Its only function was to discover whether
we'd got any locks left after umount. Since there was already
a counter for that purpose as well, I removed the list. The
saving is sizeof(struct list_head) per glock - well worth
having.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:50 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
b2cad26cfc [GFS2] Remove obsolete conversion deadlock avoidance code
This is only used by GFS1 so can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:47 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
1bdad60633 [GFS2] Remove remote lock dropping code
There are several reasons why this is undesirable:

 1. It never happens during normal operation anyway
 2. If it does happen it causes performance to be very, very poor
 3. It isn't likely to solve the original problem (memory shortage
    on remote DLM node) it was supposed to solve
 4. It uses a bunch of arbitrary constants which are unlikely to be
    correct for any particular situation and for which the tuning seems
    to be a black art.
 5. In an N node cluster, only 1/N of the dropped locked will actually
    contribute to solving the problem on average.

So all in all we are better off without it. This also makes merging
the lock_dlm module into GFS2 a bit easier.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:44 +01:00
Bob Peterson
9171f5a991 [GFS2] kernel panic mounting volume
This patch fixes Red Hat bugzilla bug 450156.

This started with a not-too-improbable mount failure because the
locking protocol was never set back to its proper "lock_dlm" after the
system was rebooted in the middle of a gfs2_fsck.  That left a
(purposely) invalid locking protocol in the superblock, which caused an
error when the file system was mounted the next time.

When there's an error mounting, vfs calls DQUOT_OFF, which calls
vfs_quota_off which calls gfs2_sync_fs.  Next, gfs2_sync_fs calls
gfs2_log_flush passing s_fs_info.  But due to the error, s_fs_info
had been previously set to NULL, and so we have the kernel oops.

My solution in this patch is to test for the NULL value before passing
it.  I tested this patch and it fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:41 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
01b7c7ae88 [GFS2] Revise readpage locking
The previous attempt to fix the locking in readpage failed due
to the use of a "try lock" which resulted in occasional high
cpu usage during testing (due to repeated tries) and also it
did not resolve all the ordering problems wrt the transaction
lock (although it did solve all the inode lock ordering problems).

This patch avoids the problem by unlocking the page and getting the
locks in the correct order. This means that we have to retest the
page to ensure that it hasn't changed when we relock the page.

This now passes the tests which were previously failing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:37 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
8027473722 [GFS2] Fix ordering of args for list_add
The patch to remove lock_nolock managed to get the arguments
of this list_add backwards. This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:34 +01:00
Harvey Harrison
2d81afb879 [GFS2] trivial sparse lock annotations
Annotate the &sdp->sd_log_lock.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:31 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
048bca2237 [GFS2] No lock_nolock
This patch merges the lock_nolock module into GFS2 itself. As well as removing
some of the overhead of the module, it also means that its now impossible to
build GFS2 without a lock module (which would be a pointless thing to do
anyway).

We also plan to merge lock_dlm into GFS2 in the future, but that is a more
tricky task, and will therefore be a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:28 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
f3c9d38a26 [GFS2] Fix ordering bug in lock_dlm
This looks like a lot of change, but in fact its not. Mostly its
things moving from one file to another. The change is just that
instead of queuing lock completions and callbacks from the DLM
we now pass them directly to GFS2.

This gives us a net loss of two list heads per glock (a fair
saving in memory) plus a reduction in the latency of delivering
the messages to GFS2, plus we now have one thread fewer as well.
There was a bug where callbacks and completions could be delivered
in the wrong order due to this unnecessary queuing which is fixed
by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:25 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
6802e3400f [GFS2] Clean up the glock core
This patch implements a number of cleanups to the core of the
GFS2 glock code. As a result a lot of code is removed. It looks
like a really big change, but actually a large part of this patch
is either removing or moving existing code.

There are some new bits too though, such as the new run_queue()
function which is considerably streamlined. Highlights of this
patch include:

 o Fixes a cluster coherency bug during SH -> EX lock conversions
 o Removes the "glmutex" code in favour of a single bit lock
 o Removes the ->go_xmote_bh() for inodes since it was duplicating
   ->go_lock()
 o We now only use the ->lm_lock() function for both locks and
   unlocks (i.e. unlock is a lock with target mode LM_ST_UNLOCKED)
 o The fast path is considerably shortly, giving performance gains
   especially with lock_nolock
 o The glock_workqueue is now used for all the callbacks from the DLM
   which allows us to simplify the lock_dlm module (see following patch)
 o The way is now open to make further changes such as eliminating the two
   threads (gfs2_glockd and gfs2_scand) in favour of a more efficient
   scheme.

This patch has undergone extensive testing with various test suites
so it should be pretty stable by now.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2008-06-27 09:39:22 +01:00
Jens Axboe
15c8b6c1aa on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.

Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-26 11:24:38 +02:00
Benjamin Marzinski
5af4e7a0be [GFS2] fix gfs2 block allocation (cleaned up)
This patch fixes bz 450641.

This patch changes the computation for zero_metapath_length(), which it
renames to metapath_branch_start(). When you are extending the metadata
tree, The indirect blocks that point to the new data block must either
diverge from the existing tree either at the inode, or at the first
indirect block. They can diverge at the first indirect block because the
inode has room for 483 pointers while the indirect blocks have room for
509 pointers, so when the tree is grown, there is some free space in the
first indirect block. What metapath_branch_start() now computes is the
height where the first indirect block for the new data block is located.
It can either be 1 (if the indirect block diverges from the inode) or 2
(if it diverges from the first indirect block).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-24 19:02:28 +01:00
Bob Peterson
17c15da00c [GFS2] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff81002690e000
This patch fixes bugzilla bug bz448866: gfs2: BUG: unable to
handle kernel paging request at ffff81002690e000.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-06-24 14:17:45 +01:00
Jan Kara
19fd426a18 Merge branch 'master' into for_mm 2008-06-24 11:43:00 +02:00
Tomas Janousek
e8183c2452 udf: Fix regression in UDF anchor block detection
In some cases it could happen that some block passed test in
udf_check_anchor_block() even though udf_read_tagged() refused to read it later
(e.g. because checksum was not correct).  This patch makes
udf_check_anchor_block() use udf_read_tagged() so that the checking is
stricter.

This fixes the regression (certain disks unmountable) caused by commit
423cf6dc04.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2008-06-24 11:38:03 +02:00
Trond Myklebust
03fa9e84e5 NFS: nfs_updatepage(): don't mark page as dirty if an error occurred
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-06-23 17:09:07 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
b7e2445737 NFS: Fix filehandle size comparisons in the mount code
Fix a sign issue in xdr_decode_fhstatus3()
Fix incorrect comparison in nfs_validate_mount_data()

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-06-23 17:09:06 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
33852a1f2b NFS: Reduce the NFS mount code stack usage.
This appears to fix the Oops reported in
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10826

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-06-23 17:09:05 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
cdd16d0265 [patch 2/3] vfs: dcache cleanups
Comment from Al Viro: add prepend_name() wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 13:07:00 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
31f3e0b3a1 [patch 1/3] vfs: dcache sparse fixes
Fix the following sparse warnings:

fs/dcache.c:2183:19: warning: symbol 'filp_cachep' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/dcache.c:115:3: warning: context imbalance in 'dentry_iput' - unexpected unlock
fs/dcache.c:188:2: warning: context imbalance in 'dput' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:400:2: warning: context imbalance in 'prune_one_dentry' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:431:22: warning: context imbalance in 'prune_dcache' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:563:2: warning: context imbalance in 'shrink_dcache_sb' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:1385:6: warning: context imbalance in 'd_delete' - wrong count at exit
fs/dcache.c:1636:2: warning: context imbalance in '__d_unalias' - unexpected unlock
fs/dcache.c:1735:2: warning: context imbalance in 'd_materialise_unique' - different lock contexts for basic block

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 13:06:36 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
be285c712b [patch 3/3] vfs: make d_path() consistent across mount operations
The path that __d_path() computes can become slightly inconsistent when it
races with mount operations: it grabs the vfsmount_lock when traversing mount
points but immediately drops it again, only to re-grab it when it reaches the
next mount point.  The result is that the filename computed is not always
consisent, and the file may never have had that name. (This is unlikely, but
still possible.)

Fix this by grabbing the vfsmount_lock for the whole duration of
__d_path().

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 13:06:13 -04:00
Denis V. Lunev
f9f48ec72b [patch 4/4] flock: remove unused fields from file_lock_operations
fl_insert and fl_remove are not used right now in the kernel. Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 11:52:30 -04:00
Marcin Slusarz
694a1764d6 [patch 3/4] vfs: fix ERR_PTR abuse in generic_readlink
generic_readlink calls ERR_PTR for negative and positive values
(vfs_readlink returns length of "link"), but it should not
(not an errno) and does not need to.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 11:52:30 -04:00
Jan Engelhardt
20d4fdc1a7 [patch 2/4] fs: make struct file arg to d_path const
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 11:52:30 -04:00
Jan Blunck
c8e7f449b2 [patch 1/4] vfs: path_{get,put}() cleanups
Here are some more places where path_{get,put}() can be used instead of
dput()/mntput() pair.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 11:52:29 -04:00
Michael Kerrisk
c70f844174 [patch for 2.6.26 4/4] vfs: utimensat(): fix write access check for futimens()
The POSIX.1 draft spec for futimens()/utimensat() says:

        Only a process with the effective user ID equal to the
        user ID of the file, *or with write access to the file*,
        or with appropriate privileges may use futimens() or
        utimensat() with a null pointer as the times argument
        or with both tv_nsec fields set to the special value
        UTIME_NOW.

The important piece here is "with write access to the file", and
this matters for futimens(), which deals with an argument that
is a file descriptor referring to the file whose timestamps are
being updated,  The standard is saying that the "writability"
check is based on the file permissions, not the access mode with
which the file is opened.  (This behavior is consistent with the
semantics of FreeBSD's futimes().)  However, Linux is currently
doing the latter -- futimens(fd, times) is a library
function implemented as

       utimensat(fd, NULL, times, 0)

and within the utimensat() implementation we have the code:

                f = fget(dfd);  // dfd is 'fd'
                ...
                if (f) {
                        if (!(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
                                goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;

The check should instead be based on the file permissions.

Thanks to Miklos for pointing out how to do this check.
Miklos also pointed out a simplification that could be
made to my first version of this patch, since the checks
for the pathname and file descriptor cases can now be
conflated.

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 08:43:52 -04:00
Michael Kerrisk
4cca92264e [patch for 2.6.26 3/4] vfs: utimensat(): fix error checking for {UTIME_NOW,UTIME_OMIT} case
The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says:

    Only a process with the effective user ID equal to the
    user ID of the file or with appropriate privileges may use
    futimens() or utimensat() with a non-null times argument
    that does not have both tv_nsec fields set to UTIME_NOW
    and does not have both tv_nsec fields set to UTIME_OMIT.

If this condition is violated, then the error EPERM should result.
However, the current implementation does not generate EPERM if
one tv_nsec field is UTIME_NOW while the other is UTIME_OMIT.
It should give this error for that case.

This patch:

a) Repairs that problem.
b) Removes the now unneeded nsec_special() helper function.
c) Adds some comments to explain the checks that are being
   performed.

Thanks to Miklos, who provided comments on the previous iteration
of this patch.  As a result, this version is a little simpler and
and its logic is better structured.

Miklos suggested an alternative idea, migrating the
is_owner_or_cap() checks into fs/attr.c:inode_change_ok() via
the use of an ATTR_OWNER_CHECK flag.  Maybe we could do that
later, but for now I've gone with this version, which is
IMO simpler, and can be more easily read as being correct.

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 08:43:04 -04:00
Michael Kerrisk
94c70b9ba7 [patch for 2.6.26 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW
The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says that if a times[n].tv_nsec
field is UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW, then the value in the corresponding
tv_sec field is ignored.  See the last sentence of this para, from
the spec:

    If the tv_nsec field of a timespec structure has
    the special value UTIME_NOW, the file's relevant
    timestamp shall be set to the greatest value
    supported by the file system that is not greater than
    the current time. If the tv_nsec field has the
    special value UTIME_OMIT, the file's relevant
    timestamp shall not be changed. In either case,
    the tv_sec field shall be ignored.

However the current Linux implementation requires the tv_sec value to be
zero (or the EINVAL error results). This requirement should be removed.

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 08:43:04 -04:00
Michael Kerrisk
12fd0d3088 [patch for 2.6.26 2/4] vfs: utimensat(): be consistent with utime() for immutable and append-only files
This patch fixes utimensat() to make its behavior consistent
with that of utime()/utimes() when dealing with files marked
immutable and append-only.

The current utimensat() implementation also returns EPERM if
'times' is non-NULL and the tv_nsec fields are both UTIME_NOW.
For consistency, the

(times != NULL && times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW &&
                  times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW)

case should be treated like the traditional utimes() case where
'times' is NULL.  That is, the call should succeed for a file
marked append-only and should give the error EACCES if the file
is marked as immutable.

The simple way to do this is to set 'times' to NULL
if (times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW && times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW).

This is also the natural approach, since POSIX.1 semantics consider the
times == {{x, UTIME_NOW}, {y, UTIME_NOW}}
to be exactly equivalent to the case for
times == NULL.

(Thanks to Miklos for pointing this out.)

Patch 3 in this series relies on the simplification provided
by this patch.

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 08:43:03 -04:00
Al Viro
fe6e9c1f25 [PATCH] fix cgroup-inflicted breakage in block_dev.c
devcgroup_inode_permission() expects MAY_FOO, not FMODE_FOO; kindly
keep your misdesign consistent if you positively have to inflict it
on the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 08:30:55 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
55d8538498 Fix performance regression on lmbench select benchmark
Christian Borntraeger reported that reinstating cond_resched() with
CONFIG_PREEMPT caused a performance regression on lmbench:

	For example select file 500:
	23 microseconds
	32 microseconds

and that's really because we totally unnecessarily do the cond_resched()
in the innermost loop of select(), which is just silly.

This moves it out from the innermost loop (which only ever loops ove the
bits in a single "unsigned long" anyway), which makes the performance
regression go away.

Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-22 12:23:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
62a8efe632 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  Ext4: Fix online resize block group descriptor corruption
2008-06-21 16:43:56 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
514bcc66d4 dlm-user: BKL pushdown
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2008-06-20 14:05:56 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
8f5934278d Replace BKL with superblock lock in fat/msdos/vfat
This replaces the use of the BKL in the FAT family of filesystems with the
existing superblock lock instead.

The code already appears to do mostly proper locking with its own private
spinlocks (and mutexes), but while the BKL could possibly have been
dropped entirely, converting it to use the superblock lock (which is just
a regular mutex) is the conservative thing to do.

As a per-filesystem mutex, it not only won't have any of the possible
latency issues related to the BKL, but the lock is obviously private to
the particular filesystem instance and will thus not cause problems for
entirely unrelated users like the BKL can.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:05:54 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
9514dff918 Remove the lock_kernel() call from chrdev_open()
All in-kernel char device open() functions now either have their own
lock_kernel() calls or clearly do not need one.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:05:53 -06:00
Jonathan Corbet
a30427d92d Add a comment in chrdev_open()
I stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before
understanding crept into my slow brain.  Hopefully this makes life easier
for the next person to happen on it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:05:53 -06:00
Frederic Bohe
2856922c15 Ext4: Fix online resize block group descriptor corruption
This is the patch for the group descriptor table corruption during
online resize pointed out by Theodore Tso.  The problem was caused by
the fact that the ext4 group descriptor can be either 32 or 64 bytes
long.  Only the 64 bytes structure was taken into account.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-06-20 11:48:48 -04:00