linux-toradex.git/fs/ext2, branch v2.6.22.13

ext2: fix return of uninitialised variable

2007-06-28T18:38:29+00:00

gcc correctly says

fs/ext2/super.c: In function 'ext2_remount':
fs/ext2/super.c:1055: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2: disallow setting xip on remount

2007-06-24T15:59:12+00:00

Yan Zheng pointed out that ext2_remount lacks checking if -o xip should be
enabled or not.  This patch checks for presence of direct_access on the
backing block device and if the blocksize meets the requirements.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte 
Cc: Yan Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR

2007-05-17T12:23:04+00:00

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Steven French 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext3: copy i_flags to inode flags on write

2007-05-08T18:15:13+00:00

Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc.  from i_flags into
ext2-specific i_flags.  Hence, when someone sets these flags via a different
interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used

2007-05-08T18:15:07+00:00

Remove includes of  where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2/3/4: fix file date underflow on ext2 3 filesystems on 64 bit systems

2007-05-08T18:14:58+00:00

Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5079

signed long ranges from -2.147.483.648 to 2.147.483.647 on x86 32bit

10000011110110100100111110111101 .. -2,082,844,739
10000011110110100100111110111101 ..  2,212,122,557 <- this currently gets
stored on the disk but when converting it to a 64bit signed long value it loses
its sign and becomes positive.

Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: 

Andreas says:

This patch is now treating timestamps with the high bit set as negative
times (before Jan 1, 1970).  This means we lose 1/2 of the possible range
of timestamps (lopping off 68 years before unix timestamp overflow -
now only 30 years away :-) to handle the extremely rare case of setting
timestamps into the distant past.

If we are only interested in fixing the underflow case, we could just
limit the values to 0 instead of storing negative values.  At worst this
will skew the timestamp by a few hours for timezones in the far east
(files would still show Jan 1, 1970 in "ls -l" output).

That said, it seems 32-bit systems (mine at least) allow files to be set
into the past (01/01/1907 works fine) so it seems this patch is bringing
the x86_64 behaviour into sync with other kernels.

On the plus side, we have a patch that is ready to add nanosecond timestamps
to ext3 and as an added bonus adds 2 high bits to the on-disk timestamp so
this extends the maximum date to 2242.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag

2007-05-07T19:12:57+00:00

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make read_cache_page synchronous

2007-05-07T19:12:51+00:00

Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.

I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
block2mtd.  All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
with a !uptodate page.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ext[234]: update documentation

2007-02-21T01:10:14+00:00

Signed-off-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

2007-02-12T17:48:47+00:00

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds