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2006-03-15[PATCH] fs/namespace.c:dup_namespace(): fix a use after freeAdrian Bunk
The Coverity checker spotted the following bug in dup_namespace(): <-- snip --> if (!new_ns->root) { up_write(&namespace_sem); kfree(new_ns); goto out; } ... out: return new_ns; <-- snip --> Callers expect a non-NULL result to not be freed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14[PATCH] page migration: fail if page is in a vma flagged VM_LOCKEDChristoph Lameter
page migration currently simply retries a couple of times if try_to_unmap() fails without inspecting the return code. However, SWAP_FAIL indicates that the page is in a vma that has the VM_LOCKED flag set (if ignore_refs ==1). We can check for that return code and avoid retrying the migration. migrate_page_remove_references() now needs to return a reason why the failure occured. So switch migrate_page_remove_references to use -Exx style error messages. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/rc-fixesLinus Torvalds
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/rc-fixes: Fix a direct I/O locking issue revealed by the new mutex code.
2006-03-15Fix a direct I/O locking issue revealed by the new mutex code.Nathan Scott
Affects only XFS (i.e. DIO_OWN_LOCKING case) - currently it is not possible to get i_mutex locking correct when using DIO_OWN direct I/O locking in a filesystem due to indeterminism in the possible return code/lock/unlock combinations. This can cause a direct read to attempt a double i_mutex unlock inside XFS. We're now ensuring __blockdev_direct_IO always exits with the inode i_mutex (still) held for a direct reader. Tested with the three different locking modes (via direct block device access, ext3 and XFS) - both reading and writing; cannot find any regressions resulting from this change, and it clearly fixes the mutex_unlock warning originally reported here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114189068126253&w=2 Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2006-03-14[PATCH] JFS: Take logsync lock before testing mp->lsnDave Kleikamp
This fixes a race where lsn could be cleared before taking the lock Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14[PATCH] NLM: Ensure we do not Oops in the case of an unlockTrond Myklebust
In theory, NLM specs assure us that the server will only reply LCK_GRANTED or LCK_DENIED_GRACE_PERIOD to our NLM_UNLOCK request. In practice, we should not assume this to be the case, and the code will currently Oops if we do. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14[PATCH] NFSv4: fix mount segfault on errors returned that are < -1000Trond Myklebust
It turns out that nfs4_proc_get_root() may return raw NFSv4 errors instead of mapping them to kernel errors. Problem spotted by Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14[PATCH] NFS: Fix a potential panic in O_DIRECTTrond Myklebust
Based on an original patch by Mike O'Connor and Greg Banks of SGI. Mike states: A normal user can panic an NFS client and cause a local DoS with 'judicious'(?) use of O_DIRECT. Any O_DIRECT write to an NFS file where the user buffer starts with a valid mapped page and contains an unmapped page, will crash in this way. I haven't followed the code, but O_DIRECT reads with similar user buffers will probably also crash albeit in different ways. Details: when nfs_get_user_pages() calls get_user_pages(), it detects and correctly handles get_user_pages() returning an error, which happens if the first page covered by the user buffer's address range is unmapped. However, if the first page is mapped but some subsequent page isn't, get_user_pages() will return a positive number which is less than the number of pages requested (this behaviour is sort of analagous to a short write() call and appears to be intentional). nfs_get_user_pages() doesn't detect this and hands off the array of pages (whose last few elements are random rubbish from the newly allocated array memory) to it's caller, whence they go to nfs_direct_write_seg(), which then totally ignores the nr_pages it's given, and calculates its own idea of how many pages are in the array from the user buffer length. Needless to say, when it comes to transmit those uninitialised page* pointers, we see a crash in the network stack. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-11[PATCH] ext3: fix nobh mode for chattr +j inodesBadari Pulavarty
One can do "chattr +j" on a file to change its journalling mode. Fix writeback mode with "nobh" handling for it. Even though, we mount ext3 filesystem in writeback mode with "nobh" option, some one can do "chattr +j" on a single file to force it to do journalled mode. In order to do journaling, ext3_block_truncate_page() need to fallback to default case of creating buffers and adding them to transaction etc. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-11[PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations insideKirill Korotaev
This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in ext3_symlink(). Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable. This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages. http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115 Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-09[PATCH] mtd: 64 bit fixesAtsushi Nemoto
Fix some bugs in mtd/jffs2 on 64bit platform. The MEMGETBADBLOCK/MEMSETBADBLOCK ioctl are not listed in compat_ioctl.h. And some variables in jffs2 are declared as uint32_t but used to hold size_t values. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[NET] compat ifconf: fix limitsRandy Dunlap
A recent change to compat. dev_ifconf() in fs/compat_ioctl.c causes ifconf data to be truncated 1 entry too early when copying it to userspace. The correct amount of data (length) is returned, but the final entry is empty (zero, not filled in). The for-loop 'i' check should use <= to allow the final struct ifreq32 to be copied. I also used the ifconf-corruption program in kernel bugzilla #4746 to make sure that this change does not re-introduce the corruption. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-08[PATCH] v9fs: fix for access to unitialized variables or freed memoryLatchesar Ionkov
Miscellaneous fixes related to accessing uninitialized variables or memory that was already freed. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] s390: dasd partition detectionHorst Hummel
DASD allows to open a device as soon as gendisk is registered, which means the device is a fake device (capacity=0) and we do know nothing about blocksize and partitions at that point of time. In case the device is opened by someone, the bdev and inode creation is done with the fake device info and the following partition detection code is just using the wrong data. To avoid this modify the DASD state machine to make sure that the open is rejected until the device analysis is either finished or an unformatted device was detected. Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] jffs2: avoid divide-by-zeroDavid Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] fix file countingDipankar Sarma
I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08[PATCH] udf: fix uid/gid options and add uid/gid=ignore and forget optionsPhillip Susi
Fix a bug in udf where it would write uid/gid = 0 to the disk for files owned by the id given with the uid=/gid= mount options. It also adds 4 new mount options: uid/gid=forget and uid/gid=ignore. Without any options the id in core and on disk always match. Giving uid/gid=nnn specifies a default ID to be used in core when the on disk ID is -1. uid/gid=ignore forces the in core ID to allways be used no matter what the on disk ID is. uid/gid=forget forces the on disk ID to always be written out as -1. The use of these options allows you to override ownerships on a disk or disable ownwership information from being written, allowing the media to be used portably between different computers and possibly different users without permissions issues that would require root to correct. Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-08Mark the pipe file operations staticLinus Torvalds
They aren't used (nor even really usable) outside of pipe.c anyway Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-07Simplify fifo_open() locking logicLinus Torvalds
We don't do interruptible waits for the pipe mutex anywhere else any more either, so don't do it in fifo_open() either. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] smaps: shared fixNick Piggin
The point of the smaps "shared" is to count the number of pages that are mapped by more than one process, according to Mauricio Lin. However, smaps uses page_count for this, so it will return a false positive for every page that is mapped by just that one process, which is also in pagecache or swapcache. There are false positive situations for anonymous pages not in swapcache as well: - page reclaim, migration - get_user_pages (eg. direct-io, ptrace) Use page_mapcount instead, to count the number of mappings to the page. Use vm_normal_page so that weird things like /dev/mem aren't counted either. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] smaps: hugepages fixNick Piggin
smaps doesn't have a hugepage pagetable walker. Skip walking hugepage vmas. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] ramfs needs to update directory m/ctime on symlinkPeter Staubach
ramfs neglects to update the directory mtime and ctime fields when creating a new symbolic link. Ramfs was modified in 2.6.15 to update these fields when other types of entries are created. The symlink support is separate from that other support, so that change did not cover quite all of the possibilities. All of the directory content manipulation entry points now seem to be covered with respect to these time field updates. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06[PATCH] cramfs mounts provide corrupted content since 2.6.15Dave Johnson
Fix handling of cramfs images created by util-linux containing empty regular files. Images created by cramfstools 1.x were ok. Fill out inode contents in cramfs_iget5_set() instead of get_cramfs_inode() to prevent issues if cramfs_iget5_test() is called with I_LOCK|I_NEW still set. Signed-off-by: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com> Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-05[CIFS] Always match oplock break (cache notification) to the right tcpSteve French
session when multiply mounted. Fixes slow response when cifs client is mounted to shares on multiple servers and oplock break occurs (usually due to attempt to multiply open a file). When treeids on mutiple mounted shares match and we find the wrong match first, we searched for the wrong cached files to send oplock break response for which usually meant that no matching file was found and thus the server would have to timeout the notification. Oplock break timeout is about 20 seconds on some servers so this could cause significantly slower performance on file open calls in a few cases (in particular when multiple shares are mounted from multiple servers, tree ids match, and we have a cached file which is later opened multiple times). This was the most important of the bugs that was found and fixed at Connectathon (interoperability testing event) this week. Acked-by: Shaggy (shaggy@austin.ibm.com) Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
2006-03-02[PATCH] reiserfs: fix unaligned bitmap usageJeff Mahoney
The bitmaps associated with generation numbers for directory entries are declared as an array of ints. On some platforms, this causes alignment exceptions. The following patch uses the standard bitmap declaration macros to declare the bitmaps, fixing the problem. Originally from Takashi Iwai. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02[PATCH] reiserfs: do not check if unsigned < 0Vladimir V. Saveliev
This patch fixes bugs in reiserfs where unsigned integers were checked whether they are less then 0. Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02[PATCH] v9fs: simplify fid mappingEric Van Hensbergen
v9fs has been plagued by an over-complicated approach trying to map Linux dentry semantics to Plan 9 fid semantics. Our previous approach called for aggressive flushing of the dcache resulting in several problems (including wierd cwd behavior when running /bin/pwd). This patch dramatically simplifies our handling of this fid management. Fids will not be clunked as promptly, but the new approach is more functionally correct. We now clunk un-open fids only when their dentry ref_count reaches 0 (and d_delete is called). Another simplification is we no longer seek to match fids to the process-id or uid of the action initiator. The uid-matching will need to be revisited when we fix the security model. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02[PATCH] v9fs: fix bug in atomic create open fixEric Van Hensbergen
Lucho's atomic create+open fix had a bug in the super block initialization causing all mounts to fail. He was freeing an fcall too early. This patch fixes that oversight. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-02[PATCH] v9fs: fix atomic create openLatchesar Ionkov
In order to assure atomic create+open v9fs stores the open fid produced by v9fs_vfs_create in the dentry, from where v9fs_file_open retrieves it and associates it with the open file. This patch modifies v9fs to use nameidata.intent.open values to do the atomic create+open. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: use hlists for lockres hashMark Fasheh
Switch from list_head to hlist_head. Make the size of the hash dependent upon the allocated area, rather than a constant. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: added source addr to bind() in o2net_start_connect()Sunil Mushran
to prevent confusion when a virtual ip is created on the same interface Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01ocfs2: Respond to on-disk corruption in the extent map code.Joel Becker
The extent map code has long noticed when the on-disk extent information is corrupt. However, so far it has only returned an error. We should take the filesystem read-only, as it is corrupt. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01ocfs2: Set .owner on masklog sysfs attributes.Joel Becker
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: fix orphan recovery deadlockMark Fasheh
Orphan dir recovery can deadlock with another process in ocfs2_delete_inode() in some corner cases. Fix this by tracking recovery state more closely and allowing it to handle inode wipes which might deadlock. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: complete failure recovery for nodemanager initJeff Mahoney
This patch finishes cleaning up the node manager allocations if it fails to initialize. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: remove non existing function prototypesMark Fasheh
Remove some prototypes from tcp.h for functions which have long been gone. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: remove unused codeMark Fasheh
Remove some #ifdef'd out code which was inadvertantly introduced in our initial merge. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: remove pointless max journal size limitMark Fasheh
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-03-01[PATCH] ocfs2: fix -Wformat warnings when building UML on x86-64Jeff Mahoney
The check to determine which format string is appopriate for u64 and friends works in most cases, but UML on x86_64 doesn't define CONFIG_X86_64, so it results in screen fulls of compile-time warnings. This patch fixes it to handle that case. fs/ocfs2/cluster/masklog.h | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-28[PATCH] Add mm->task_size and fix powerpc vdsoBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch adds mm->task_size to keep track of the task size of a given mm and uses that to fix the powerpc vdso so that it uses the mm task size to decide what pages to fault in instead of the current thread flags (which broke when ptracing). (akpm: I expect that mm_struct.task_size will become the way in which we finally sort out the confusion between 32-bit processes and 32-bit mm's. It may need tweaks, but at this stage this patch is powerpc-only.) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-28[PATCH] fuse: fix bug in negative lookupMiklos Szeredi
If negative entries (nodeid == 0) were sent in reply to LOOKUP requests, two bugs could be triggered: - looking up a negative entry would return -EIO, - revaildate on an entry which turned negative would send a FORGET request with zero nodeid, which would cause an abort() in the library. The above would only happen if the 'negative_timeout=N' option was used, otherwise lookups reply -ENOENT, which worked correctly. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-28[XFS] Don't map non-uptodate buffers in xfs_probe_cluster; also fixesEric Sandeen
obscure corruption case SGI-PV: 942658 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:207119a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-02-28[XFS] Reduce stack use during quota mounts (caused a panic). ThisNathan Scott
regressed recently via the fix for inherited quota inode attributes. SGI-PV: 947312 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25318a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-02-28[XFS] Fix a realtime allocator regression introduced by an old iget raceNathan Scott
fix. Noticed by Roger Willcocks. SGI-PV: 949821 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25257a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-02-26[PATCH] x86_64: Fix ioctl compat code for /dev/rtcAndi Kleen
RTC_IRQP_SET/RTC_EPOCH_SET don't take a pointer to an argument, but the argument itself. This actually simplifies the code and makes it work. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-26[PATCH] x86_64: Check for bad elf entry address.Suresh Siddha
Fixes a local DOS on Intel systems that lead to an endless recursive fault. AMD machines don't seem to be affected. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
2006-02-24[PATCH] ramfs: update dir mtime and ctimeAndrew Morton
Phil Marek <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at> points out that ramfs forgets to update a directory's mtime and ctime when it is modified. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24[PATCH] flags parameter for linkatUlrich Drepper
I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name. Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does. Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application might want this behavior. We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior. For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new behavior could be invoked. I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the syscall API? Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24NTFS: Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write byAnton Altaparmakov
special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>