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2007-07-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: [XFS] Fix inode size update before data write in xfs_setattr [XFS] Allow punching holes to free space when at ENOSPC [XFS] Implement ->page_mkwrite in XFS. [FS] Implement block_page_mkwrite. Manually fix up conflict with Nick's VM fault handling patches in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: NFSv4: handle lack of clientaddr in option string NFSv4: debug print ntohl(status) in nfs client callback xdr code SUNRPC: Clean up the sillyrename code NFS: Introduce struct nfs_removeargs+nfs_removeres NFS: Use dentry->d_time to store the parent directory verifier. SUNRPC: move bkl locking and xdr proc invocation into a common helper NFSv4: Fix the nfsv4 readlink reply buffer alignment NFSv4: Fix the readdir reply buffer alignment NFSv4: More NFSv4 xdr cleanups NFSv4: Try to recover from getfh failures in nfs4_xdr_dec_open NFSv4: 'constify' lookup arguments. NFSv4: Don't fail nfs4_xdr_dec_open if decode_restorefh() failed NFSv4: Fix open state recovery NFSD/SUNRPC: Fix the automatic selection of RPCSEC_GSS
2007-07-19Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: ocfs2: ->fallocate() support
2007-07-19NFSv4: handle lack of clientaddr in option stringJeff Layton
If a NFSv4 mount is attempted with string based options, and the option string doesn't contain a clientaddr= option, the kernel will currently oops. Check for this situation and return a proper error. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: debug print ntohl(status) in nfs client callback xdr codeBenny Halevy
status in nfs client callback xdr code is passed in network order. print it in host order for better readability. Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19SUNRPC: Clean up the sillyrename codeTrond Myklebust
Fix a couple of bugs: - Don't rely on the parent dentry still being valid when the call completes. Fixes a race with shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() - Don't remove the file if the filehandle has been labelled as stale. Fix a couple of inefficiencies - Remove the global list of sillyrenamed files. Instead we can cache the sillyrename information in the dentry->d_fsdata - Move common code from unlink_setup/unlink_done into fs/nfs/unlink.c Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFS: Introduce struct nfs_removeargs+nfs_removeresTrond Myklebust
We need a common structure for setting up an unlink() rpc call in order to fix the asynchronous unlink code. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFS: Use dentry->d_time to store the parent directory verifier.Trond Myklebust
This will free up the d_fsdata field for other use. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: Fix the nfsv4 readlink reply buffer alignmentTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: Fix the readdir reply buffer alignmentTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: More NFSv4 xdr cleanupsTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: Try to recover from getfh failures in nfs4_xdr_dec_openTrond Myklebust
Try harder to recover the open state if the server failed to return a filehandle. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: 'constify' lookup arguments.Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: Don't fail nfs4_xdr_dec_open if decode_restorefh() failedTrond Myklebust
We can already easily recover from that inside _nfs4_proc_open(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSv4: Fix open state recoveryTrond Myklebust
Ensure that opendata->state is always initialised when we do state recovery. Ensure that we set the filehandle in the case where we're doing an "OPEN_CLAIM_PREVIOUS" call due to a server reboot. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19NFSD/SUNRPC: Fix the automatic selection of RPCSEC_GSSTrond Myklebust
Bruce's patch broke the ability to compile RPCSEC_GSS as a module. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19afs build fixAndrew Morton
Bruce and David's patches clashed. fs/afs/flock.c: In function 'afs_do_getlk': fs/afs/flock.c:459: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19knfsd: clean up EX_RDONLYJ. Bruce Fields
Share a little common code, reverse the arguments for consistency, drop the unnecessary "inline", and lowercase the name. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19knfsd: move EX_RDONLY out of headerJ. Bruce Fields
EX_RDONLY is only called in one place; just put it there. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19nfsd: remove unnecessary NULL checks from nfsd_cross_mntJ. Bruce Fields
We can now assume that rqst_exp_get_by_name() does not return NULL; so clean up some unnecessary checks. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19nfsd: return errors, not NULL, from export functionsJ. Bruce Fields
I converted the various export-returning functions to return -ENOENT instead of NULL, but missed a few cases. This particular case could cause actual bugs in the case of a krb5 client that doesn't match any ip-based client and that is trying to access a filesystem not exported to krb5 clients. Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19nfsd: fix possible read-ahead cache and export table corruptionJ. Bruce Fields
The value of nperbucket calculated here is too small--we should be rounding up instead of down--with the result that the index j in the following loop can overflow the raparm_hash array. At least in my case, the next thing in memory turns out to be export_table, so the symptoms I see are crashes caused by the appearance of four zeroed-out export entries in the first bucket of the hash table of exports (which were actually entries in the readahead cache, a pointer to which had been written to the export table in this initialization code). It looks like the bug was probably introduced with commit fce1456a19f5c08b688c29f00ef90fdfa074c79b ("knfsd: make the readahead params cache SMP-friendly"). Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide)Yoann Padioleau
Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc). Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing this transformation: @@ type T2; expression x; identifier f,fld; expression E; expression E1,E2; expression e1,e2,e3,y; statement S; @@ x = - kmalloc + kzalloc (E1,E2) ... when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\) - memset((T2)x,0,E1); @@ expression E1,E2,E3; @@ - kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3) + kcalloc(E1,E2,E3) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around] Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: update module informationJan Harkes
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: remove statistics counters from /proc/fs/codaJan Harkes
Similar information can easily be obtained with strace -c. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: remove struct coda_sb_infoJan Harkes
The sb_info structure only contains a single pointer to the character device, there is no need for the added indirection. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: cleanup downcall handlerJan Harkes
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: cleanup coda_lookup, use dsplice_aliasJan Harkes
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: ignore returned values when upcalls return errorsJan Harkes
Venus returns an ENOENT error on open, so we shouldn't try to grab the filehandle for the returned fd. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: replace upc_alloc/upc_free with kmalloc/kfreeJan Harkes
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: avoid lockdep warning in coda_readdirJan Harkes
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: block signals during upcall processingJan Harkes
We ignore signals for about 30 seconds to give userspace a chance to see the upcall. As we did not block signals we ended up in a busy loop for the remainder of the period when a signal is received. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: cleanup for upcall handling pathJan Harkes
Make the code that processes upcall responses more straightforward, uncovered at least one bad assumption. We trusted that vc_inuse would be 0 when upcalls are aborted, however the device may have been reopened. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: cleanup /dev/cfs open and close handlingJan Harkes
- Make sure device index is not a negative number. - Unlink queued requests when the device is closed to avoid passing them to the next opener. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: use ilookup5Jan Harkes
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: coda doesn't track atimeJan Harkes
Set MS_NOATIME flag to avoid unnecessary calls when the coda inode is accessed. Also, set statfs.f_bsize to 4k. 1k is obviously too small for the suggested IO size. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: allow removal of busy directoriesJan Harkes
A directory without children may still be busy when it is the cwd for some process. We can safely remove such a directory because the VFS prevents further operations. Also we don't need to call d_delete as it is already called in vfs_rmdir. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: fix nlink updates for directoriesJan Harkes
The Coda client sets the directory link count to 1 when it isn't sure how many subdirectories we have. In this case we shouldn't change the link count in the kernel when a subdirectory is created or removed. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: correctly invalidate cached access rightsJan Harkes
Change the epoch value to forces a refresh instead of clearing the cached rights mask and block all further accesses to the object. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coda: do not grab an uninitialized fd when the open upcall returns an errorJan Harkes
When open fails the fd in the response is uninitialized and we ended up taking a reference on the file struct and never released it. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19fix ext4/JBD2 build warningsMingming Cao
Looking at the current linus-git tree jbd_debug() define in include/linux/jbd2.h extern u8 journal_enable_debug; #define jbd_debug(n, f, a...) \ do { \ if ((n) <= journal_enable_debug) { \ printk (KERN_DEBUG "(%s, %d): %s: ", \ __FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__); \ printk (f, ## a); \ } \ } while (0) > fs/ext4/inode.c: In function ‘ext4_write_inode’: > fs/ext4/inode.c:2906: warning: comparison is always true due to limited > range of data type > > fs/jbd2/recovery.c: In function ‘jbd2_journal_recover’: > fs/jbd2/recovery.c:254: warning: comparison is always true due to > limited range of data type > fs/jbd2/recovery.c:257: warning: comparison is always true due to > limited range of data type > > fs/jbd2/recovery.c: In function ‘jbd2_journal_skip_recovery’: > fs/jbd2/recovery.c:301: warning: comparison is always true due to > limited range of data type > Noticed all warnings are occurs when the debug level is 0. Then found the "jbd2: Move jbd2-debug file to debugfs" patch http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f49d5d019afa4e94253bfc92f0daca3badb990b changed the jbd2_journal_enable_debug from int type to u8, makes the jbd_debug comparision is always true when the debugging level is 0. Thus the compile warning occurs. Thought about changing the jbd2_journal_enable_debug data type back to int, but can't, because the jbd2-debug is moved to debug fs, where calling debugfs_create_u8() to create the debugfs entry needs the value to be u8 type. Even if we changed the data type back to int, the code is still buggy, kernel should not print jbd2 debug message if the jbd2_journal_enable_debug is set to 0. But this is not the case. The fix is change the level of debugging to 1. The same should fixed in ext3/JBD, but currently ext3 jbd-debug via /proc fs is broken, so we probably should fix it all together. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coredump masking: ELF-FDPIC: enable core dump filteringKawai, Hidehiro
This patch enables core dump filtering for ELF-FDPIC-formatted core file. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coredump masking: ELF-FDPIC: remove an unused argumentKawai, Hidehiro
This patch removes an unused argument from elf_fdpic_dump_segments(). Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coredump masking: ELF: enable core dump filteringKawai, Hidehiro
This patch enables core dump filtering for ELF-formatted core file. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coredump masking: add an interface for core dump filterKawai, Hidehiro
This patch adds an interface to set/reset flags which determines each memory segment should be dumped or not when a core file is generated. /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter file is provided to access the flags. You can change the flag status for a particular process by writing to or reading from the file. The flag status is inherited to the child process when it is created. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19coredump masking: reimplementation of dumpable using two flagsKawai, Hidehiro
This patch changes mm_struct.dumpable to a pair of bit flags. set_dumpable() converts three-value dumpable to two flags and stores it into lower two bits of mm_struct.flags instead of mm_struct.dumpable. get_dumpable() behaves in the opposite way. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export set_dumpable] Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19fs: remove path_walk exportJosef 'Jeff' Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19fs: mark link_path_walk staticJosef 'Jeff' Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19nfsctl: use vfs_path_lookupJosef 'Jeff' Sipek
use vfs_path_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19fs: introduce vfs_path_lookupJosef 'Jeff' Sipek
Stackable file systems, among others, frequently need to lookup paths or path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace (identified by a dentry and a vfsmount). Currently, such file systems use lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup intent along; not passing a lookup intent, for example, can trigger BUG_ON's when stacking on top of NFSv4. The first patch introduces a new lookup function to allow lookup starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace. This approach has been suggested by Christoph Hellwig [2]. The second patch changes sunrpc to use vfs_path_lookup. The third patch changes nfsctl.c to use vfs_path_lookup. The fourth patch marks link_path_walk static. The fifth, and last patch, unexports path_walk because it is no longer unnecessary to call it directly, and using the new vfs_path_lookup is cleaner. For example, the following snippet of code, looks up "some/path/component" in a directory pointed to by parent_{dentry,vfsmnt}: err = vfs_path_lookup(parent_dentry, parent_vfsmnt, "some/path/component", 0, &nd); if (!err) { /* exits */ ... /* once done, release the references */ path_release(&nd); } else if (err == -ENOENT) { /* doesn't exist */ } else { /* other error */ } VFS functions such as lookup_create can be used on the nameidata structure to pass the create intent to the file system. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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