linux-toradex.git/fs/block_dev.c, branch v2.6.36.4

blkdev: cgroup whitelist permission fix

2010-08-11T15:59:18+00:00

The cgroup device whitelist code gets confused when trying to grant
permission to a disk partition that is not currently open.  Part of
blkdev_open() includes __blkdev_get() on the whole disk.

Basically, the only ways to reliably allow a cgroup access to a partition
on a block device when using the whitelist are to 1) also give it access
to the whole block device or 2) make sure the partition is already open in
a different context.

The patch avoids the cgroup check for the whole disk case when opening a
partition.

Addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589662

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Tested-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-08-10T22:22:42+00:00

* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits)
  block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n
  xen-blkfront: fix missing out label
  blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value
  block: update request stacking methods to support discards
  block: fix missing export of blk_types.h
  writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting
  drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently
  drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315]
  drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release
  writeback: cleanup bdi_register
  writeback: add new tracepoints
  writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call
  writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups
  writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups
  writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread
  writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little
  writeback: move last_active to bdi
  writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list
  writeback: simplify bdi code a little
  writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads
  ...

Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and
drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2010-08-10T18:26:52+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
  Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c

convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()

2010-08-09T20:48:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

get rid of block_write_begin_newtrunc

2010-08-09T20:47:33+00:00

Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in preparation of the new truncate sequence and rename the non-truncating
version to block_write_begin.

While we're at it also remove several unused arguments to block_write_begin.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sort out blockdev_direct_IO variants

2010-08-09T20:47:29+00:00

Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in prepearation of the new truncate calling sequence.  This was only done
for DIO_LOCKING filesystems, so the __blockdev_direct_IO_newtrunc variant
was not needed anyway.  Get rid of blockdev_direct_IO_no_locking and
its _newtrunc variant while at it as just opencoding the two additional
paramters is shorted than the name suffix.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: push down BKL into .open and .release

2010-08-07T16:25:34+00:00

The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
->open and ->release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block_dev: always serialize exclusive open attempts

2010-08-04T18:17:10+00:00

bd_prepare_to_claim() incorrectly allowed multiple attempts for
exclusive open to progress in parallel if the attempting holders are
identical.  This triggered BUG_ON() as reported in the following bug.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16393

__bd_abort_claiming() is used to finish claiming blocks and doesn't
work if multiple openers are inside a claiming block.  Allowing
multiple parallel open attempts to continue doesn't gain anything as
those are serialized down in the call chain anyway.  Fix it by always
allowing only single open attempt in a claiming block.

This problem can easily be reproduced by adding a delay after
bd_prepare_to_claim() and attempting to mount two partitions of a
disk.

stable: only applicable to v2.6.35

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block: remove duplicate BUG_ON() in bd_finish_claiming()

2010-06-10T17:08:34+00:00

We do the same BUG_ON() just a line later when calling into
__bd_abort_claiming().

Reported-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: bd_start_claiming cleanup

2010-06-10T17:08:34+00:00

I don't like the subtle multi-context code in bd_claim (ie.  detects where it
has been called based on bd_claiming). It seems clearer to just require a new
function to finish a 2-part claim.

Also improve commentary in bd_start_claiming as to how it should
be used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe