linux-toradex.git/fs/ext3/super.c, branch v3.10.26

make blkdev_put() return void

2013-05-07T06:16:31+00:00

same story as with the previous patches - note that return
value of blkdev_close() is lost, since there's nowhere the
caller (__fput()) could return it to.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: make snapshotting pages for stable writes a per-bio operation

2013-04-29T22:54:33+00:00

Walking a bio's page mappings has proved problematic, so create a new
bio flag to indicate that a bio's data needs to be snapshotted in order
to guarantee stable pages during writeback.  Next, for the one user
(ext3/jbd) of snapshotting, hook all the places where writes can be
initiated without PG_writeback set, and set BIO_SNAP_STABLE there.

We must also flag journal "metadata" bios for stable writeout, since
file data can be written through the journal.  Finally, the
MS_SNAP_STABLE mount flag (only used by ext3) is now superfluous, so get
rid of it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rename _submit_bh()'s `flags' to `bio_flags', delobotomize the _submit_bh declaration]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: teeny cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext3: Fix format string issues

2013-03-11T21:05:56+00:00

ext3_msg() takes the printk prefix as the second parameter and the
format string as the third parameter. Two callers of ext3_msg omit the
prefix and pass the format string as the second parameter and the first
parameter to the format string as the third parameter. In both cases
this string comes from an arbitrary source. Which means the string may
contain format string characters, which will
lead to undefined and potentially harmful behavior.

The issue was introduced in commit 4cf46b67eb("ext3: Unify log messages
in ext3") and is fixed by this patch.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.

2013-03-04T03:36:31+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Reported-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

2013-02-26T22:51:52+00:00

Pull ext2, ext3, udf updates from Jan Kara:
 "Several UDF fixes, a support for UDF extent cache, and couple of ext2
  and ext3 cleanups and minor fixes"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  Ext2: remove the static function release_blocks to optimize the kernel
  Ext2: mark inode dirty after the function dquot_free_block_nodirty is called
  Ext2: remove the overhead check about sb in the function ext2_new_blocks
  udf: Remove unused s_extLength from udf_bitmap
  udf: Make s_block_bitmap standard array
  udf: Fix bitmap overflow on large filesystems with small block size
  udf: add extent cache support in case of file reading
  udf: Write LVID to disk after opening / closing
  Ext3: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails
  Ext2: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails
  Ext3: use unlikely to improve the efficiency of the kernel
  Ext2: use unlikely to improve the efficiency of the kernel
  Ext3: add necessary check in case IO error happens
  Ext2: free memory allocated and forget buffer head when io error happens
  ext3: Fix memory leak when quota options are specified multiple times
  ext3, ext4, ocfs2: remove unused macro NAMEI_RA_INDEX

block: optionally snapshot page contents to provide stable pages during write

2013-02-22T01:22:20+00:00

This provides a band-aid to provide stable page writes on jbd without
needing to backport the fixed locking and page writeback bit handling
schemes of jbd2.  The band-aid works by using bounce buffers to snapshot
page contents instead of waiting.

For those wondering about the ext3 bandage -- fixing the jbd locking
(which was done as part of ext4dev years ago) is a lot of surgery, and
setting PG_writeback on data pages when we actually hold the page lock
dropped ext3 performance by nearly an order of magnitude.  If we're
going to migrate iscsi and raid to use stable page writes, the
complaints about high latency will likely return.  We might as well
centralize their page snapshotting thing to one place.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen 
Cc: Ron Minnich 
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext3: Fix memory leak when quota options are specified multiple times

2013-01-21T10:19:55+00:00

When usrjquota or grpjquota mount options are specified several times,
we leak memory storing the names. Free the memory correctly.

Reported-by: Chen Gang 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

ext3: get rid of the duplicate code on ext3_fill_super

2012-12-13T15:33:24+00:00

Setting s_mount_opt to 0 is unnecessary because we use kzalloc() for sb
allocation. s_resuid and s_resgid are set again few lines below based on
values in on disk superblock.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

2012-10-17T01:12:38+00:00

Pull ext2, ext3, quota fixes from Jan Kara:
 "Fix three regressions caused by user namespace conversions (ext2,
  ext3, quota) and minor ext3 fix and cleanup."

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  quota: Silence warning about PRJQUOTA not being handled in need_print_warning()
  ext3: fix return values on parse_options() failure
  ext2: fix return values on parse_options() failure
  ext3: ext3_bread usage audit
  ext3: fix possible non-initialized variable on htree_dirblock_to_tree()

ext3: drop lock/unlock super

2012-10-10T03:33:38+00:00

Removed lock/unlock super.

Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro