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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/9p/vfs_super.c, branch v4.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -&gt; SB_xyz)</title>
<updated>2017-11-27T21:05:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-27T21:05:09+00:00</published>
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This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel
superblock flags.

The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the
moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to.

Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call,
while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb-&gt;s_flags.

The script to do this was:

    # places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be
    # touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but
    # there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags.
    FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \
            include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \
            security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h"
    # the list of MS_... constants
    SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \
          DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \
          POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \
          I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \
          ACTIVE NOUSER"

    SED_PROG=
    for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done

    # we want files that contain at least one of MS_...,
    # with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded.
    L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c')

    for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel
superblock flags.

The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the
moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to.

Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call,
while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb-&gt;s_flags.

The script to do this was:

    # places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be
    # touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but
    # there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags.
    FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \
            include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \
            security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h"
    # the list of MS_... constants
    SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \
          DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \
          POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \
          I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \
          ACTIVE NOUSER"

    SED_PROG=
    for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done

    # we want files that contain at least one of MS_...,
    # with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded.
    L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c')

    for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>9p: Implement show_options</title>
<updated>2017-07-11T10:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T15:25:37+00:00</published>
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Implement the show_options superblock op for 9p as part of a bid to get
rid of s_options and generic_show_options() to make it easier to implement
a context-based mount where the mount options can be passed individually
over a file descriptor.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Ron Minnich &lt;rminnich@sandia.gov&gt;
cc: Latchesar Ionkov &lt;lucho@ionkov.net&gt;
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Implement the show_options superblock op for 9p as part of a bid to get
rid of s_options and generic_show_options() to make it easier to implement
a context-based mount where the mount options can be passed individually
over a file descriptor.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Ron Minnich &lt;rminnich@sandia.gov&gt;
cc: Latchesar Ionkov &lt;lucho@ionkov.net&gt;
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>9p: Convert to separately allocated bdi</title>
<updated>2017-04-20T18:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T10:24:31+00:00</published>
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Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside session. This unifies handling of bdi among users.

CC: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Ron Minnich &lt;rminnich@sandia.gov&gt;
CC: Latchesar Ionkov &lt;lucho@ionkov.net&gt;
CC: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Allocate struct backing_dev_info separately instead of embedding it
inside session. This unifies handling of bdi among users.

CC: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
CC: Ron Minnich &lt;rminnich@sandia.gov&gt;
CC: Latchesar Ionkov &lt;lucho@ionkov.net&gt;
CC: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros</title>
<updated>2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:29:47+00:00</published>
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()</title>
<updated>2015-06-08T15:05:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-08T05:57:31+00:00</published>
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On failure, v9fs_session_init() returns with the v9fs_session_info
struct partially initialized and expects the caller to invoke
v9fs_session_close() to clean it up; however, it doesn't track whether
the bdi is initialized or not and curiously invokes bdi_destroy() in
both vfs_session_init() failure path too.

A. If v9fs_session_init() fails before the bdi is initialized, the
   follow-up v9fs_session_close() will invoke bdi_destroy() on an
   uninitialized bdi.

B. If v9fs_session_init() fails after the bdi is initialized,
   bdi_destroy() will be called twice on the same bdi - once in the
   failure path of v9fs_session_init() and then by
   v9fs_session_close().

A is broken no matter what.  B used to be okay because bdi_destroy()
allowed being invoked multiple times on the same bdi, which BTW was
broken in its own way - if bdi_destroy() was invoked on an initialiezd
but !registered bdi, it'd fail to free percpu counters.  Since
f0054bb1e1f3 ("writeback: move backing_dev_info-&gt;wb_lock and
-&gt;worklist into bdi_writeback"), this no longer work - bdi_destroy()
on an initialized but not registered bdi works correctly but multiple
invocations of bdi_destroy() is no longer allowed.

The obvious culprit here is v9fs_session_init()'s odd and broken error
behavior.  It should simply clean up after itself on failures.  This
patch makes the following updates to v9fs_session_init().

* @rc -&gt; @retval error return propagation removed.  It didn't serve
  any purpose.  Just use @rc.

* Move addition to v9fs_sessionlist to the end of the function so that
  incomplete sessions are not put on the list or iterated and error
  path doesn't have to worry about it.

* Update error handling so that it cleans up after itself.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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On failure, v9fs_session_init() returns with the v9fs_session_info
struct partially initialized and expects the caller to invoke
v9fs_session_close() to clean it up; however, it doesn't track whether
the bdi is initialized or not and curiously invokes bdi_destroy() in
both vfs_session_init() failure path too.

A. If v9fs_session_init() fails before the bdi is initialized, the
   follow-up v9fs_session_close() will invoke bdi_destroy() on an
   uninitialized bdi.

B. If v9fs_session_init() fails after the bdi is initialized,
   bdi_destroy() will be called twice on the same bdi - once in the
   failure path of v9fs_session_init() and then by
   v9fs_session_close().

A is broken no matter what.  B used to be okay because bdi_destroy()
allowed being invoked multiple times on the same bdi, which BTW was
broken in its own way - if bdi_destroy() was invoked on an initialiezd
but !registered bdi, it'd fail to free percpu counters.  Since
f0054bb1e1f3 ("writeback: move backing_dev_info-&gt;wb_lock and
-&gt;worklist into bdi_writeback"), this no longer work - bdi_destroy()
on an initialized but not registered bdi works correctly but multiple
invocations of bdi_destroy() is no longer allowed.

The obvious culprit here is v9fs_session_init()'s odd and broken error
behavior.  It should simply clean up after itself on failures.  This
patch makes the following updates to v9fs_session_init().

* @rc -&gt; @retval error return propagation removed.  It didn't serve
  any purpose.  Just use @rc.

* Move addition to v9fs_sessionlist to the end of the function so that
  incomplete sessions are not put on the list or iterated and error
  path doesn't have to worry about it.

* Update error handling so that it cleans up after itself.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T19:06:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-17T22:25:59+00:00</published>
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that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>9P: introduction of a new cache=mmap model.</title>
<updated>2014-01-10T15:20:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominique Martinet</name>
<email>dominique.martinet@cea.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-10T12:44:09+00:00</published>
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 - Add cache=mmap option
 - Make mmap read-write while keeping it as synchronous as possible
 - Build writeback fid on mmap creation if it is writable

Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
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 - Add cache=mmap option
 - Make mmap read-write while keeping it as synchronous as possible
 - Build writeback fid on mmap creation if it is writable

Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;dominique.martinet@cea.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.</title>
<updated>2013-03-04T03:36:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-03T03:39:14+00:00</published>
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Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op</title>
<updated>2013-02-26T07:46:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-20T16:19:05+00:00</published>
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The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause

    server# mkdir a
    client# cd a
    server# mv a a.bak
    client# sleep 30  # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
    client# stat .
    stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle

Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
FS_REVAL_DOT set.

nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.

The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
the dcache is still valid.

Add a new d_op-&gt;d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
"weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
special casing.

[AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]

Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause

    server# mkdir a
    client# cd a
    server# mv a a.bak
    client# sleep 30  # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
    client# stat .
    stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle

Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
FS_REVAL_DOT set.

nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.

The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
the dcache is still valid.

Add a new d_op-&gt;d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
"weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
special casing.

[AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]

Cc: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()</title>
<updated>2012-07-14T12:38:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-25T11:55:37+00:00</published>
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Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called.  They could also be passed to the
compare function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called.  They could also be passed to the
compare function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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