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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/jffs2/file.c, branch v4.9.117</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T01:48:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T15:48:45+00:00</published>
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These inode operations are no longer used; remove them.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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These inode operations are no longer used; remove them.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jffs2: Remove jffs2_{get,set,remove}xattr macros</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T02:17:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T15:48:31+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_XATTR is off, jffs2_xattr_handlers is defined as
NULL. With sb-&gt;s_xattr == NULL, the generic_{get,set,remove}xattr
functions produce the same result as setting the {get,set,remove}xattr
inode operations to NULL, so there is no need for these macros.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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When CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_XATTR is off, jffs2_xattr_handlers is defined as
NULL. With sb-&gt;s_xattr == NULL, the generic_{get,set,remove}xattr
functions produce the same result as setting the {get,set,remove}xattr
inode operations to NULL, so there is no need for these macros.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>Revert "jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin"</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T11:11:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Betker</name>
<email>thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-10T21:18:15+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 5ffd3412ae55
("jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin").

The commit modified jffs2_write_begin() to remove a deadlock with
jffs2_garbage_collect_live(), but this introduced new deadlocks found
by multiple users. page_lock() actually has to be called before
mutex_lock(&amp;c-&gt;alloc_sem) or mutex_lock(&amp;f-&gt;sem) because
jffs2_write_end() and jffs2_readpage() are called with the page locked,
and they acquire c-&gt;alloc_sem and f-&gt;sem, resp.

In other words, the lock order in jffs2_write_begin() was correct, and
it is the jffs2_garbage_collect_live() path that has to be changed.

Revert the commit to get rid of the new deadlocks, and to clear the way
for a better fix of the original deadlock.

Reported-by: Deng Chao &lt;deng.chao1@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Ming Liu &lt;liu.ming50@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: wangzaiwei &lt;wangzaiwei@top-vision.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Betker &lt;thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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This reverts commit 5ffd3412ae55
("jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin").

The commit modified jffs2_write_begin() to remove a deadlock with
jffs2_garbage_collect_live(), but this introduced new deadlocks found
by multiple users. page_lock() actually has to be called before
mutex_lock(&amp;c-&gt;alloc_sem) or mutex_lock(&amp;f-&gt;sem) because
jffs2_write_end() and jffs2_readpage() are called with the page locked,
and they acquire c-&gt;alloc_sem and f-&gt;sem, resp.

In other words, the lock order in jffs2_write_begin() was correct, and
it is the jffs2_garbage_collect_live() path that has to be changed.

Revert the commit to get rid of the new deadlocks, and to clear the way
for a better fix of the original deadlock.

Reported-by: Deng Chao &lt;deng.chao1@zte.com.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Ming Liu &lt;liu.ming50@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: wangzaiwei &lt;wangzaiwei@top-vision.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Betker &lt;thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wrappers for -&gt;i_mutex access</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T23:04:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T20:40:57+00:00</published>
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>make new_sync_{read,write}() static</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:29:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-03T19:41:18+00:00</published>
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All places outside of core VFS that checked -&gt;read and -&gt;write for being NULL or
called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL
{read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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All places outside of core VFS that checked -&gt;read and -&gt;write for being NULL or
called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL
{read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>write_iter variants of {__,}generic_file_aio_write()</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T21:38:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T07:17:43+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>switch simple generic_file_aio_read() users to -&gt;read_iter()</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T21:37:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-02T18:33:16+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jffs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure</title>
<updated>2014-01-26T04:58:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-20T13:16:47+00:00</published>
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Also don't bother to set up a .get_acl method for symlinks as we do not
support access control (ACLs or even mode bits) for symlinks in Linux.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Also don't bother to set up a .get_acl method for symlinks as we do not
support access control (ACLs or even mode bits) for symlinks in Linux.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin</title>
<updated>2012-11-09T15:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Betker</name>
<email>thomas.betker@freenet.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-17T20:59:30+00:00</published>
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jffs2_write_begin() first acquires the page lock, then f-&gt;sem. This
causes an AB-BA deadlock with jffs2_garbage_collect_live(), which first
acquires f-&gt;sem, then the page lock:

jffs2_garbage_collect_live
    mutex_lock(&amp;f-&gt;sem)                         (A)
    jffs2_garbage_collect_dnode
        jffs2_gc_fetch_page
            read_cache_page_async
                do_read_cache_page
                    lock_page(page)             (B)

jffs2_write_begin
    grab_cache_page_write_begin
        find_lock_page
            lock_page(page)                     (B)
    mutex_lock(&amp;f-&gt;sem)                         (A)

We fix this by restructuring jffs2_write_begin() to take f-&gt;sem before
the page lock. However, we make sure that f-&gt;sem is not held when
calling jffs2_reserve_space(), as this is not permitted by the locking
rules.

The deadlock above was observed multiple times on an SoC with a dual
ARMv7 (Cortex-A9), running the long-term 3.4.11 kernel; it occurred
when using scp to copy files from a host system to the ARM target
system. The fix was heavily tested on the same target system.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Betker &lt;thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joakim Tjernlund &lt;Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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jffs2_write_begin() first acquires the page lock, then f-&gt;sem. This
causes an AB-BA deadlock with jffs2_garbage_collect_live(), which first
acquires f-&gt;sem, then the page lock:

jffs2_garbage_collect_live
    mutex_lock(&amp;f-&gt;sem)                         (A)
    jffs2_garbage_collect_dnode
        jffs2_gc_fetch_page
            read_cache_page_async
                do_read_cache_page
                    lock_page(page)             (B)

jffs2_write_begin
    grab_cache_page_write_begin
        find_lock_page
            lock_page(page)                     (B)
    mutex_lock(&amp;f-&gt;sem)                         (A)

We fix this by restructuring jffs2_write_begin() to take f-&gt;sem before
the page lock. However, we make sure that f-&gt;sem is not held when
calling jffs2_reserve_space(), as this is not permitted by the locking
rules.

The deadlock above was observed multiple times on an SoC with a dual
ARMv7 (Cortex-A9), running the long-term 3.4.11 kernel; it occurred
when using scp to copy files from a host system to the ARM target
system. The fix was heavily tested on the same target system.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Betker &lt;thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joakim Tjernlund &lt;Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com&gt;
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