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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cfq-iosched: do not leak ioc_data across iosched switches
splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read()
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Some time ago while attempting to handle invalid link counts, I botched
the unlink of links itself, so this patch fixes this now correctly, so
that only the link count of nodes that don't point to links is ignored.
Thanks to Vlado Plaga <rechner@vlado-do.de> to notify me of this
problem.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since older kernels may look in the sb_bad_features2 slot for flags,
rather than zeroing it out on fixup, we should make it equal to the
sb_features2 value.
Also, if the ATTR2 flag was not found prior to features2 fixup, it was not
set in the mount flags, so re-check after the fixup so that the current
session will use the feature.
Also fix up the comments to reflect these changes.
SGI-PV: 980085
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30778a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Due to the xfs_dsb_t structure not being 64 bit aligned, the last field of
the on-disk superblock can vary in location This causes problems when the
filesystem gets moved to a different platform, or there is a 32 bit
userspace and 64 bit kernel.
This patch detects the defect at mount time, logs a warning such as:
XFS: correcting sb_features alignment problem
in dmesg and corrects the problem so that everything is OK. it also
blacklists the bad field in the superblock so it does not get used for
something else later on.
SGI-PV: 977636
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30539a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Remove macro-to-small-function indirection from xfs_sb.h, and remove some
which are completely unused.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30528a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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There's a quirky loop in generic_file_splice_read() that could go
on indefinitely, if the file splice returns 0 permanently (and not
just as a temporary condition). Get rid of the loop and pass
back -EAGAIN correctly from __generic_file_splice_read(), so we
handle that condition properly as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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mm/nommu.c:862:/do_mmap_private()
NFS needs a NOMMU version mmap function to support uClinux on NOMMU machine
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_id=141&tracker_item_id=3992
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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The nfs_open_context struct had a "flags" field added recently, but the
allocator isn't initializing it. It also looks like the allocator isn't
initializing the mode or list either, but they seem to be overwritten
by the caller, so that's less of an issue.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Mikulas Patocka noted that the optimization where we check if a buffer
was already dirty (and we avoid re-dirtying it) was not really SMP-safe.
Since the read of the old status was not synchronized with anything, an
aggressive CPU re-ordering of memory accesses might have moved that read
up to before the data was even written to the buffer, and another CPU
that cleaned it again, causing the newly dirty state to never actually
hit the disk.
Admittedly this would probably never trigger in practice, but it's still
wrong.
Mikulas sent a patch that fixed the problem, but I dislike the subtlety
of the whole optimization, so this is an alternate fix that is more
explicit about the particular SMP ordering for the optimization, and
separates out the speculative reads of the buffer state into its own
conditional (and makes the memory barrier only happen if we are likely
to actually hit the optimized case in the first place).
I considered removing the optimization entirely, but Andrew argued for
it's continued existence. I'm a push-over.
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The loop block driver is careful to mask __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS out of its
mapping_gfp_mask, to avoid hangs under memory pressure. But nowadays
it uses splice, usually going through __generic_file_splice_read. That
must use mapping_gfp_mask instead of GFP_KERNEL to avoid those hangs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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If afs_cell_alloc() fails, afs_cells_sem doesn't get unlocked, which
leads to a deadlock. Unlock it before returning.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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] mnt_expire is protected by namespace_sem, no need for vfsmount_lock
[PATCH] do shrink_submounts() for all fs types
[PATCH] sanitize locking in mark_mounts_for_expiry() and shrink_submounts()
[PATCH] count ghost references to vfsmounts
[PATCH] reduce stack footprint in namespace.c
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kafs doesn't check if the cell already exists - so if you do an echo "add
newcell.org 1.2.3.4" >/proc/fs/afs/cells it will try to create this cell
again. kobject will also complain about a double registration. To prevent
such problems, return -EEXIST in that case.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Current nobh_write_end() implementation ignore partial writes(copied < len)
case if page was fully mapped and simply mark page as Uptodate, which is
totally wrong because area [pos+copied, pos+len) wasn't updated explicitly in
previous write_begin call. It simply contains garbage from pagecache and
result in data leakage.
#TEST_CASE_BEGIN:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In fact issue triggered by classical testcase
open("/mnt/test", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
ftruncate(3, 409600) = 0
writev(3, [{"a", 1}, {NULL, 4095}], 2) = 1
##TESTCASE_SOURCE:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd, ret;
void* p;
struct iovec iov[2];
fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666);
ftruncate(fd, 409600);
iov[0].iov_base="a";
iov[0].iov_len=1;
iov[1].iov_base=NULL;
iov[1].iov_len=4096;
ret = writev(fd, iov, sizeof(iov)/sizeof(struct iovec));
printf("writev = %d, err = %d\n", ret, errno);
return 0;
}
##TESTCASE RESULT:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[root@ts63 ~]# mount | grep mnt2
/dev/mapper/test on /mnt2 type ext2 (rw,nobh)
[root@ts63 ~]# /tmp/writev /mnt2/test
writev = 1, err = 0
[root@ts63 ~]# hexdump -C /mnt2/test
00000000 61 65 62 6f 6f 74 00 00 f0 b9 b4 59 3a 00 00 00 |aeboot.....Y:...|
00000010 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | .......!.......|
00000020 df df df df df df df df df df df df df df df df |................|
00000030 3a 00 00 00 2a 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |:...*...!.......|
00000040 60 c0 8c 00 00 00 00 00 40 4a 8d 00 00 00 00 00 |`.......@J......|
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........A.......|
00000060 74 69 6d 65 20 64 64 20 69 66 3d 2f 64 65 76 2f |time dd if=/dev/|
00000070 6c 6f 6f 70 30 20 20 6f 66 3d 2f 64 65 76 2f 6e |loop0 of=/dev/n|
skip..
00000f50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........1.......|
00000f60 6d 6b 66 73 2e 65 78 74 33 20 2f 64 65 76 2f 76 |mkfs.ext3 /dev/v|
00000f70 7a 76 67 2f 74 65 73 74 20 2d 62 34 30 39 36 00 |zvg/test -b4096.|
00000f80 a0 fe 8c 00 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........!.......|
00000f90 23 31 32 30 35 39 35 30 34 30 34 00 3a 00 00 00 |#1205950404.:...|
00000fa0 20 00 8d 00 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | .......!.......|
00000fb0 d0 cf 8c 00 00 00 00 00 10 d0 8c 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000fc0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........A.......|
00000fd0 6d 6f 75 6e 74 20 2f 64 65 76 2f 76 7a 76 67 2f |mount /dev/vzvg/|
00000fe0 74 65 73 74 20 20 2f 76 7a 20 2d 6f 20 64 61 74 |test /vz -o dat|
00000ff0 61 3d 77 72 69 74 65 62 61 63 6b 00 00 00 00 00 |a=writeback.....|
00001000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
As you can see file's page contains garbage from pagecache instead of zeros.
#TEST_CASE_END
Attached patch:
- Add sanity check BUG_ON in order to prevent incorrect usage by caller,
This is function invariant because page can has buffers and in no zero
*fadata pointer at the same time.
- Always attach buffers to page is it is partial write case.
- Always switch back to generic_write_end if page has buffers.
This is reasonable because if page already has buffer then generic_write_begin
was called previously.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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... and take it out of ->umount_begin() instances. Call with all locks
already taken (by do_umount()) and leave calling release_mounts() to
caller (it will do release_mounts() anyway, so we can just put into
the same list).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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... and fix a race on access of ->mnt_share et.al. without namespace_sem
in the latter.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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make propagate_mount_busy() exclude references from the vfsmounts
that had been isolated by umount_tree() and are just waiting for
release_mounts() to dispose of their ->mnt_parent/->mnt_mountpoint.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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A lot of places misuse struct nameidata when they need struct path.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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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] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity
[PATCH] double iput() on failure exit in hugetlb
[PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem
[PATCH] fix up new filp allocators
[PATCH] check for null vfsmount in dentry_open()
[PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr
[PATCH] sanitize hppfs
hppfs pass vfsmount to dentry_open()
[PATCH] restore export of do_kern_mount()
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Try to find the culprit who caused
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150
Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[CIFS] Fix mem leak on dfs referral
[CIFS] file create with acl support enabled is slow
[CIFS] Fix mtime on cp -p when file data cached but written out too late
[CIFS] Fix build problem
[CIFS] cifs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
[CIFS] DFS patch that connects inode with dfs handling ops
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Change pagemap output format to allow for future reporting of huge pages.
(Format comment and minor cleanups: mpm@selenic.com)
Signed-off-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (46 commits)
[NET] ifb: set separate lockdep classes for queue locks
[IPV6] KCONFIG: Fix description about IPV6_TUNNEL.
[TCP]: Fix shrinking windows with window scaling
netpoll: zap_completion_queue: adjust skb->users counter
bridge: use time_before() in br_fdb_cleanup()
[TG3]: Fix build warning on sparc32.
MAINTAINERS: bluez-devel is subscribers-only
audit: netlink socket can be auto-bound to pid other than current->pid (v2)
[NET]: Fix permissions of /proc/net
[SCTP]: Fix a race between module load and protosw access
[NETFILTER]: ipt_recent: sanity check hit count
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_h323: logical-bitwise & confusion in process_setup()
[RT2X00] drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c: remove dead code, fix warning
[IPV4]: esp_output() misannotations
[8021Q]: vlan_dev misannotations
xfrm: ->eth_proto is __be16
[IPV4]: ipv4_is_lbcast() misannotations
[SUNRPC]: net/* NULL noise
[SCTP]: fix misannotated __sctp_rcv_asconf_lookup()
[PKT_SCHED]: annotate cls_u32
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commit e9720ac ([NET]: Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v3))
broke ganglia and probably other applications that read /proc/net/dev.
This is due to the change of permissions of /proc/net that was
introduced in that commit.
Before: dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Mar 19 11:30 /proc/net
After: dr-xr--r-- 5 root root 0 Mar 19 11:29 /proc/self/net
This patch restores the permissions to the old value which makes
ganglia happy again.
Pavel Emelyanov says:
This also broke the postfix, as it was reported in bug #10286
and described in detail by Benjamin.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
nfs: don't ignore return value from nfs_pageio_add_request
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fs/ufs/balloc.c: In function `ufs_change_blocknr':
fs/ufs/balloc.c:317: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 2)
fs/ufs/balloc.c:317: warning: long long unsigned int format, long unsigned int arg (arg 3)
sector_t is u64 and we don't know what type the architecture uses to implement
u64.
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A read request outside i_size will be handled in do_generic_file_read(). So
we just return 0 to avoid getting -EIO as normal reading, let
do_generic_file_read do the rest.
At the same time we need unlock the page to avoid system stuck.
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10227
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Report-by: Christian Perle <chris@linuxinfotag.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/.
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line:
* mark_files_ro
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
* lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
* lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line:
* lookup_one_len: filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line:
* bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line:
* bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line:
* writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device.
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line:
* void journal_invalidatepage()
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ecryptfs_d_release() is doing a mntput before doing the dput. This patch
moves the dput before the mntput.
Thanks to Rajouri Jammu for reporting this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rajouri Jammu <rajouri.jammu@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix a long-standing typo (predating git) that will cause data corruption if a
journal data block needs unescaping. At the moment the wrong buffer head's
data is being unescaped.
To test this case mount a filesystem with data=journal, start creating and
deleting a bunch of files containing only JBD2_MAGIC_NUMBER (0xc03b3998), then
pull the plug on the device. Without this patch the files will contain zeros
instead of the correct data after recovery.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix a long-standing typo (predating git) that will cause data corruption if a
journal data block needs unescaping. At the moment the wrong buffer head's
data is being unescaped.
To test this case mount a filesystem with data=journal, start creating and
deleting a bunch of files containing only JFS_MAGIC_NUMBER (0xc03b3998), then
pull the plug on the device. Without this patch the files will contain zeros
instead of the correct data after recovery.
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix up an error in iget removal in which romfs_lookup() making a successful
call to romfs_iget() continues through the negative/error handling (previously
the successful case jumped around the negative/error handling case):
(1) inode is initialised to NULL at the top of the function, eliminating the
need for specific negative-inode handling. This means the positive
success handling now flows straight through.
(2) Rename the labels to be clearer about what they mean.
Also make romfs_lookup()'s result variable of type long so as to avoid
32-bit/64-bit conversions with PTR_ERR() and friends.
Based upon a report and patch from Adam Richter.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are several places where we make allocations with GFP_KERNEL while under
a transaction, which could lead to an assertion panic or lockup if under
memory pressure. This patch switches these problem areas to use GFP_NOFS to
keep these problems from happening.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We should always put inode we have reference to, even if quota was reenabled
in the mean time.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix kernel-doc notation in jbd.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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My group ran into a AIO process hang on a 2.6.24 kernel with the process
sleeping indefinitely in io_getevents(2) waiting for the last wakeup to come
and it never would.
We ran the tests on x86_64 SMP. The hang only occurred on a Xeon box
("Clovertown") but not a Core2Duo ("Conroe"). On the Xeon, the L2 cache isn't
shared between all eight processors, but is L2 is shared between between all
two processors on the Core2Duo we use.
My analysis of the hang is if you go down to the second while-loop
in read_events(), what happens on processor #1:
1) add_wait_queue_exclusive() adds thread to ctx->wait
2) aio_read_evt() to check tail
3) if aio_read_evt() returned 0, call [io_]schedule() and sleep
In aio_complete() with processor #2:
A) info->tail = tail;
B) waitqueue_active(&ctx->wait)
C) if waitqueue_active() returned non-0, call wake_up()
The way the code is written, step 1 must be seen by all other processors
before processor 1 checks for pending events in step 2 (that were recorded by
step A) and step A by processor 2 must be seen by all other processors
(checked in step 2) before step B is done.
The race I believed I was seeing is that steps 1 and 2 were
effectively swapped due to the __list_add() being delayed by the L2
cache not shared by some of the other processors. Imagine:
proc 2: just before step A
proc 1, step 1: adds to ctx->wait, but is not visible by other processors yet
proc 1, step 2: checks tail and sees no pending events
proc 2, step A: updates tail
proc 1, step 3: calls [io_]schedule() and sleeps
proc 2, step B: checks ctx->wait, but sees no one waiting, skips wakeup
so proc 1 sleeps indefinitely
My patch adds a memory barrier between steps A and B. It ensures that the
update in step 1 gets seen on processor 2 before continuing. If processor 1
was just before step 1, the memory barrier makes sure that step A (update
tail) gets seen by the time processor 1 makes it to step 2 (check tail).
Before the patch our AIO process would hang virtually 100% of the time. After
the patch, we have yet to see the process ever hang.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+linux@yahoo-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ We should probably disallow that "if (waitqueue_active()) wake_up()"
coding pattern, because it's so often buggy wrt memory ordering ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ignoring the return value from nfs_pageio_add_request can cause deadlocks.
In read path:
call nfs_pageio_add_request from readpage_async_filler
assume at this point that there are requests already in desc, that
can't be merged with the current request.
so nfs_pageio_doio is fired up to clear out desc.
assume something goes wrong in setting up the io, so desc->pg_error is set.
This causes nfs_pageio_add_request to return 0, *WITHOUT* adding the original
request.
BUT, since return code is ignored, readpage_async_filler assumes it has
been added, and does nothing further, leaving page locked.
do_generic_mapping_read will eventually call lock_page, resulting in deadlock
In write path:
page is marked dirty by generic_perform_write
nfs_writepages is called
call nfs_pageio_add_request from nfs_page_async_flush
assume at this point that there are requests already in desc, that
can't be merged with the current request.
so nfs_pageio_doio is fired up to clear out desc.
assume something goes wrong in setting up the io, so desc->pg_error is set.
This causes nfs_page_async_flush to return 0, *WITHOUT* adding the original
request, yet marking the request as locked (PG_BUSY) and in writeback,
clearing dirty marks.
The next time a write is done to the page, deadlock will result as
nfs_write_end calls nfs_update_request
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Somebody had put struct nameidata in stack frame of link_path_walk().
Unfortunately, there are certain realities to deal with:
* It's in the middle of recursion. Depth is equal to the nesting
depth of symlinks, i.e. up to 8.
* struct namiedata is, even if one discards the intent junk,
at least 12 pointers + 5 ints.
* moreover, adding a stack frame is not free in that situation.
* there are fs methods called on top of that, and they also have
stack footprint.
* kernel stack is not infinite.
The thing is, even if one chooses to deal with -ESTALE that way (and it's
one hell of an overkill), the only thing that needs to be preserved is
vfsmount + dentry, not the entire struct nameidata.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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once we'd done d_instantiate(), we should only do dput().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Some new uses of get_empty_filp() have crept in; switched
to alloc_file() to make sure that pieces of initialization
won't be missing.
We really need to kill get_empty_filp().
[AV] fixed dentry leak on failure exit in anon_inode_getfd()
Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Make sure no-one calls dentry_open with a NULL vfsmount argument and crap
out with a stacktrace otherwise. A NULL file->f_vfsmnt has always been
problematic, but with the per-mount r/o tracking we can't accept anymore
at all.
[AV] the last place that passed NULL had been eliminated by the previous
patch (reiserfs xattr stuff)
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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After several posts and bug reports regarding interaction with the NULL
nameidata, here's a patch to clean up the mess with struct file in the
reiserfs xattr code.
As observed in several of the posts, there's really no need for struct file
to exist in the xattr code. It was really only passed around due to the
f_op->readdir() and a_ops->{prepare,commit}_write prototypes requiring it.
reiserfs_prepare_write() and reiserfs_commit_write() don't actually use the
struct file passed to it, and the xattr code uses a private version of
reiserfs_readdir() to enumerate the xattr directories.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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* hppfs_iget() and its users are racy; there's no need to pollute icache
anyway, new_inode() works fine and is safe, unlike the current kludges
(these relied on overwriting ->i_ino before another iget_locked() gets
to that one - and did it after unlocking).
* merge hppfs_iget()/init_inode()/hppfs_read_inode(), while we are
at it.
* to pass proper vfsmount to dentry_open() store the reference
in hppfs superblock.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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