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2005-06-07[PATCH] NFS: Fix lookup intent handlingTrond Myklebust
We should never apply a lookup intent to anything other than the last path component in an open(), create() or access() call. Introduce the helper nfs_lookup_check_intent() which always returns zero if LOOKUP_CONTINUE or LOOKUP_PARENT are set, and returns the intent flags if we're on the last component of the lookup. By doing so, we fix a bug in open(O_EXCL), where we may end up optimizing away a real lookup of the parent directory. Problem noticed by Linda Dunaphant <linda.dunaphant@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] binfmt_flat mmap flag fixYoshinori Sato
Make sure that binfmt_flat passes the correct flags into do_mmap(). nommu's validate_mmap_request() will simple return -EINVAL if we try and pass it a flags value of zero. Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (19/19)Al Viro
__do_follow_link() passes potentially worng vfsmount to touch_atime(). It matters only in (currently impossible) case of symlink mounted on something, but it's trivial to fix and that actually makes more sense. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (18/19)Al Viro
Cosmetical cleanups - __follow_mount() calls in __link_path_walk() absorbed into do_lookup(). Obviously equivalent transformation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (17/19)Al Viro
follow_mount() made void, reordered dput()/mntput() in it. follow_dotdot() switched from struct vfmount ** + struct dentry ** to struct nameidata *; callers updated. Equivalent transformation + fix for too-early-mntput() race. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (16/19)Al Viro
Conditional mntput() moved into __do_follow_link(). There it collapses with unconditional mntget() on the same sucker, closing another too-early-mntput() race. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (15/19)Al Viro
Getting rid of sloppy logics: a) in do_follow_link() we have the wrong vfsmount dropped if our symlink had been mounted on something. Currently it worls only because we never get such situation (modulo filesystem playing dirty tricks on us). And it obfuscates already convoluted logics... b) same goes for open_namei(). c) in __link_path_walk() we have another "it should never happen" sloppiness - out_dput: there does double-free on underlying vfsmount and leaks the covering one if we hit it just after crossing a mountpoint. Again, wrong vfsmount getting dropped. d) another too-early-mntput() race - in do_follow_mount() we need to postpone conditional mntput(path->mnt) until after dput(path->dentry). Again, this one happens only in it-currently-never-happens-unless-some-fs-plays-dirty scenario... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (14/19)Al Viro
shifted conditional mntput() into do_follow_link() - all callers were doing the same thing. Obviously equivalent transformation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (13/19)Al Viro
In open_namei() exit_dput: we have mntput() done in the wrong order - if nd->mnt != path.mnt we end up doing mntput(nd->mnt); nd->mnt = path.mnt; dput(nd->dentry); mntput(nd->mnt); which drops nd->dentry too late. Fixed by having path.mnt go first. That allows to switch O_NOFOLLOW under if (__follow_mount(...)) back to exit_dput, while we are at it. Fix for early-mntput() race + equivalent transformation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (12/19)Al Viro
In open_namei() we take mntput(nd->mnt);nd->mnt=path.mnt; out of the if (__follow_mount(...)), making it conditional on nd->mnt != path.mnt instead. Then we shift the result downstream. Equivalent transformations. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (11/19)Al Viro
shifted conditional mntput() calls in __link_path_walk() downstream. Obviously equivalent transformation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (10/19)Al Viro
In open_namei(), __follow_down() loop turned into __follow_mount(). Instead of if we are on a mountpoint dentry if O_NOFOLLOW checks fail drop path.dentry drop nd return do equivalent of follow_mount(&path.mnt, &path.dentry) nd->mnt = path.mnt we do if __follow_mount(path) had, indeed, traversed mountpoint /* now both nd->mnt and path.mnt are pinned down */ if O_NOFOLLOW checks fail drop path.dentry drop path.mnt drop nd return mntput(nd->mnt) nd->mnt = path.mnt Now __follow_down() can be folded into follow_down() - no other callers left. We need to reorder dput()/mntput() there - same problem as in follow_mount(). Equivalent transformation + fix for a bug in O_NOFOLLOW handling - we used to get -ELOOP if we had the same fs mounted on /foo and /bar, had something bound on /bar/baz and tried to open /foo/baz with O_NOFOLLOW. And fix of too-early-mntput() race in follow_down() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (9/19)Al Viro
New helper: __follow_mount(struct path *path). Same as follow_mount(), except that we do *not* do mntput() after the first lookup_mnt(). IOW, original path->mnt stays pinned down. We also take care to do dput() before mntput() in the loop body (follow_mount() also needs that reordering, but that will be done later in the series). The following are equivalent, assuming that path.mnt == x: (1) follow_mount(&path.mnt, &path.dentry) (2) __follow_mount(&path); if (path->mnt != x) mntput(x); (3) if (__follow_mount(&path)) mntput(x); Callers of follow_mount() in __link_path_walk() converted to (2). Equivalent transformation + fix for too-late-mntput() race in __follow_mount() loop. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (8/19)Al Viro
In open_namei() we never use path.mnt or path.dentry after exit: or ok:. Assignment of path.dentry in case of LAST_BIND is dead code and only obfuscates already convoluted function; assignment of path.mnt after __do_follow_link() can be moved down to the place where we set path.dentry. Obviously equivalent transformations, just to clean the air a bit in that region. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (7/19)Al Viro
The first argument of __do_follow_link() switched to struct path * (__do_follow_link(path->dentry, ...) -> __do_follow_link(path, ...)). All callers have the same calls of mntget() right before and dput()/mntput() right after __do_follow_link(); these calls have been moved inside. Obviously equivalent transformations. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (6/19)Al Viro
mntget(path->mnt) in do_follow_link() moved down to right before the __do_follow_link() call and rigth after loop: resp. dput()+mntput() on non-ELOOP branch moved up to right after __do_follow_link() call. resulting loop: mntget(path->mnt); path_release(nd); dput(path->mnt); mntput(path->mnt); replaced with equivalent dput(path->mnt); path_release(nd); Equivalent transformations - the reason why we have that mntget() is that __do_follow_link() can drop a reference to nd->mnt and that's what holds path->mnt. So that call can happen at any point prior to __do_follow_link() touching nd->mnt. The rest is obvious. NOTE: current tree relies on symlinks *never* being mounted on anything. It's not hard to get rid of that assumption (actually, that will come for free later in the series). For now we are just not making the situation worse than it is. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (5/19)Al Viro
fix for too early mntput() in open_namei() - we pin path.mnt down for the duration of __do_follow_link(). Otherwise we could get the fs where our symlink lived unmounted while we were in __do_follow_link(). That would end up with dentry of symlink staying pinned down through the fs shutdown. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (4/19)Al Viro
path.mnt in open_namei() set to mirror nd->mnt. nd->mnt is set in 3 places in that function - path_lookup() in the beginning, __follow_down() loop after do_last: and __do_follow_link() call after do_link:. We set path.mnt to nd->mnt after path_lookup() and __do_follow_link(). In __follow_down() loop we use &path.mnt instead of &nd->mnt and set nd->mnt to path.mnt immediately after that loop. Obviously equivalent transformation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (3/19)Al Viro
Replaced struct dentry *dentry in namei with struct path path. All uses of dentry replaced with path.dentry there. Obviously equivalent transformation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixes (2/19)Al Viro
All callers of do_follow_link() do mntget() right before it and dput()+mntput() right after. These calls are moved inside do_follow_link() now. Obviously equivalent transformation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-06[PATCH] namei fixesAl Viro
OK, here comes a patch series that hopefully should close all too-early-mntput() races in fs/namei.c. Entire area is convoluted as hell, so I'm splitting that series into _very_ small chunks. Patches alread in the tree close only (very wide) races in following symlinks (see "busy inodes after umount" thread some time ago). Unfortunately, quite a few narrower races of the same nature were not closed. Hopefully this should take care of all of them. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-04[PATCH] mpage_end_io_write() I/O error handling fixQu Fuping
When fsync() runs wait_on_page_writeback_range() it only inspects pages which are actually under I/O (PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK). If a page completed I/O prior to wait_on_page_writeback_range() looking at it, it is supposed to have recorded its I/O error state in the address_space. But mpage_mpage_end_io_write() forgot to set the address_space error flag in this case. Signed-off-by: Qu Fuping <fs@ercist.iscas.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-02[PATCH] ext3: fix list scanning in __cleanup_transactionJan Kara
Fix a bug in list scanning that can cause us to skip the last buffer on the checkpoint list (and hence fail to do any progress under some rather unfavorable conditions). The problem is we first do jh=next_jh and then test } while (jh!=last_jh); Hence we skip the last buffer on the list (if it was not the only buffer on the list). As we already do jh=next_jh; in the beginning of the loop we are safe to just remove the assignment in the end. It can happen that 'jh' will be freed at the point we test jh != last_jh but that does not matter as we never *dereference* the pointer. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-02[PATCH] ext3: fix log_do_checkpoint() assertion failureJan Kara
Fix possible false assertion failure in log_do_checkpoint(). We might fail to detect that we actually made a progress when cleaning up the checkpoint lists if we don't retry after writing something to disk. The patch was confirmed to fix observed assertion failures for several users. When we flushed some buffers we need to retry scanning the list. Otherwise we can fail to detect our progress. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-01Automatic merge of ↵Linus Torvalds
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
2005-06-01[PATCH] ppc32/ppc64: cleanup /proc/device-treeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This cleans up the /proc/device-tree representation of the Open Firmware device-tree on ppc and ppc64. It does the following things: - Workaround an issue in some Apple device-trees where a property may exist with the same name as a child node of the parent. We now simply "drop" the property instead of creating duplicate entries in /proc with random result... - Do not try to chop off the "@0" at the end of a node name whose unit address is 0. This is not useful, inconsistent, and the code was buggy and didn't always work anyway. - Do not create symlinks for the short name and unit address parts of a node. These were never really used, bloated the memory footprint of the device-tree with useless struct proc_dir_entry and their matching dentry and inode cache bloat. This results in smaller code, smaller memory footprint, and a more accurate view of the tree presented to userland. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-31[PATCH] UDF filesystem: array '__mon_yday' declared as not staticGoffredo Baroncelli
in fs/udf/udftime.c the global array '__mon_yday' is not static, and it conflicts with the glibc one when the kernel is compiled as user mode. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28[PATCH] uml: remove 2_5compat.hJeff Dike
Remove old useless header that was used in Ye Olde Times during 2.4->2.5 porting to abstract differences. It's definitions are no more used anyway, so let's finally kill it. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-27[XFS] remove an over-zealous WARN_ONChristoph Hellwig
2005-05-27Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitChristoph Hellwig
2005-05-21[PATCH] reiserfs: max_key fixVladimir Saveliev
This patch fixes a bug introduced by Al Viro's patch: [patch 136/174] reiserfs endianness: clone struct reiserfs_key The problem is MAX_KEY and MAX_IN_CORE_KEY defined in this patch do not look equal from reiserfs comp_key's point of view. This caused reiserfs' sanity check to complain. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-19Merge with ↵Steve French
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
2005-05-19[AF_UNIX]: Use lookup_create().Christoph Hellwig
currently it opencodes it, but that's in the way of chaning the lookup_hash interface. I'd prefer to disallow modular af_unix over exporting lookup_create, but I'll leave that to you. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-18[PATCH] Avoid console spam with ext3 aborted journal.Stephen Tweedie
Avoid console spam with ext3 aborted journal. ext3 usually reports error conditions that it detects in its environment. But when its journal gets aborted due to such errors, it can sometimes continue to report that condition forever, spamming the console to such an extent that the initial first cause of the journal abort can be lost. When the journal aborts, we put the filesystem into readonly mode. Most subsequent filesystem operations will get rejected immediately by checks for MS_RDONLY either in the filesystem or in the VFS. But some paths do not have such checks --- for example, if we continue to write to a file handle that was opened before the fs went readonly. (We only check for the ROFS condition when the file is first opened.) In these cases, we can continue to generate log errors similar to EXT3-fs error (device $DEV) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted for each subsequent write. There is really no point in generating these errors after the initial error has been fully reported. Specifically, if we're starting a completely new filesystem operation, and the filesystem is *already* readonly (ie. the ext3 layer has already detected and handled the underlying jbd abort), and we see an EROFS error, then there is simply no point in reporting it again. Signed-off-by: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[CIFS] fix casts of unicode strings to match function definitionSteve French
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
2005-05-17[CIFS] Fix oops in cifs_unlink. Caused in some cases when renaming over ↵Steve French
existing, newly created, file. Samba bugzilla: 2697 Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
2005-05-17[CIFS] missing break needed to handle < when mount option "mapchars" specifiedSteve French
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
2005-05-17[PATCH] block_read_full_page() get_block() error handling fixAndrew Morton
If block_read_full_page() detects an error when running get_block() it will run SetPageError(), then it will zero out the block in pagecache and will mark the buffer_head uptodate. So at the end of readahead we end up with a non-uptodate pagecache page which is marked PageError. But it has uptodate buffers. The pagefault code will run ClearPageError, will launch readpage a second time and block_read_full_page() will notice the uptodate buffers and will mark the page uptodate as well. We end up with an uptodate, !PageError page full of zeros and the error is lost. (It seems a little odd that filemap_nopage() runs ClearPageError(). I guess all of this adds up to meaning that for each attempted access to the page, the pagefault handler will retry the I/O. Which is good and bad. If the app is ignoring SIGBUS for some reason we could get a lot of back-to-back I/O errors.) Fix it by not marking the pagecache buffer_head as uptodate if the attempt to map that buffer to a disk block failed. Credit-to: Qu Fuping <fs@ercist.iscas.ac.cn> For reporting the bug and identifying its source. Signed-off-by: Qu Fuping <fs@ercist.iscas.ac.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] fix impossible VmallocChunkHugh Dickins
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 266288 kB VmallocChunk: 18014366299193295 kB is unsettling - x86_64 and some other architectures keep a separate address range for modules in vmalloc's vmlist, which /proc/meminfo should pass over. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-16[PATCH] fix Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevationGreg Kroah-Hartman
As reported by Paul Starzetz <ihaquer@isec.pl> Reference: CAN-2005-1263 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-06[PATCH] revert msdos partitioning fixAndrew Morton
This change from March 3rd causes the partition parsing code to ignore partitions which have a signature byte of zero. Turns out that more people have such partitions than we expected, and their device numbering is coming up wrong in post-2.6.11 kernels. So revert the change while we think about the problem a bit more. Cc: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-06[XFS] Fix directory inodes ioctl compat code, minor code consistency cleanupsNathan Scott
SGI Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:21810a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
2005-05-06[XFS] Fix a bug in xfs_iomap for extent handling of write casesRussell Cattelan
This may be the cause of several open PV's of incorrect delay flags being set and then tripping asserts. Do not return a delay alloc extent when the caller is asking to do a write. SGI Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:189616a Signed-off-by: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
2005-05-05[PATCH] fs/udf/udftime.c: fix off by one errorAdrian Bunk
This patch fixes an off by one error found by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] comments on locking of task->commPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Add some comments about task->comm, to explain what it is near its definition and provide some important pointers to its uses. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] reiserfs: use NULL instead of 0Randy.Dunlap
Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer (sparse warning): fs/reiserfs/namei.c:611:50: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] make some things staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] revert ext3-writepages-support-for-writeback-modeAndrew Morton
This had a fatal lock ranking bug: we do journal_start outside mpage_writepages()'s lock_page(). Revert the whole thing, think again. Credit-to: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> For identifying the bug. Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] remove do_sync parameter from __invalidate_deviceChristoph Hellwig
The only caller that ever sets it can call fsync_bdev itself easily. Also update some comments. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] remove BK documentationAdrian Bunk
There's no longer a reason to document the obsolete BK usage. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>