linux-toradex.git/fs/hfsplus/dir.c, branch v3.7.2

hfsplus: get rid of write_super

2012-07-22T19:58:04+00:00

This patch makes hfsplus stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back.  But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.

Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

don't pass nameidata to ->create()

2012-07-14T12:34:47+00:00

boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()

2012-07-14T12:34:32+00:00

Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

hfsplus: Fix potential buffer overflows

2012-05-05T00:11:24+00:00

Commit ec81aecb2966 ("hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow") fixed a few
potential buffer overflows in the hfs filesystem.  But as Timo Warns
pointed out, these changes also need to be made on the hfsplus
filesystem as well.

Reported-by: Timo Warns 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Cc: Alexey Khoroshilov 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Eugene Teo 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Dave Anderson 
Cc: stable 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

switch ->mknod() to umode_t

2012-01-04T03:54:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch ->create() to umode_t

2012-01-04T03:54:53+00:00

vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of the method

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch vfs_mkdir() and ->mkdir() to umode_t

2012-01-04T03:54:53+00:00

vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

filesystems: add missing nlink wrappers

2011-11-02T11:53:43+00:00

Replace direct i_nlink updates with the respective updater function
(inc_nlink, drop_nlink, clear_nlink, inode_dec_link_count).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

hfsplus: add error checking for hfs_find_init()

2011-07-07T15:45:46+00:00

hfs_find_init() may fail with ENOMEM, but there are places, where
the returned value is not checked. The consequences can be very
unpleasant, e.g. kfree uninitialized pointer and
inappropriate mutex unlocking.

The patch adds checks for errors in hfs_find_init().

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

hfsplus: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename

2011-05-28T05:02:52+00:00

hfsplus does not have problems with references to unlinked directories.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro