linux-toradex.git/fs/notify, branch v3.8.2

inotify: remove broken mask checks causing unmount to be EINVAL

2013-02-28T13:38:31+00:00

commit 676a0675cf9200ac047fb50825f80867b3bb733b upstream.

Running the command:

	inotifywait -e unmount /mnt/disk

immediately aborts with a -EINVAL return code.  This is however a valid
parameter.  This abort occurs only if unmount is the sole event
parameter.  If other event parameters are supplied, then the unmount
event wait will work.

The problem was introduced by commit 44b350fc23e ("inotify: Fix mask
checks").  In that commit, it states:

	The mask checks in inotify_update_existing_watch() and
	inotify_new_watch() are useless because inotify_arg_to_mask()
	sets FS_IN_IGNORED and FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD bits anyway.

But instead of removing the useless checks, it did this:

	        mask = inotify_arg_to_mask(arg);
	-       if (unlikely(!mask))
	+       if (unlikely(!(mask & IN_ALL_EVENTS)))
	                return -EINVAL;

The problem is that IN_ALL_EVENTS doesn't include IN_UNMOUNT, and other
parts of the code keep IN_UNMOUNT separate from IN_ALL_EVENTS.  So the
check should be:

	if (unlikely(!(mask & (IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_UNMOUNT))))

But inotify_arg_to_mask(arg) always sets the IN_UNMOUNT bit in the mask
anyway, so the check is always going to pass and thus should simply be
removed.  Also note that inotify_arg_to_mask completely controls what
mask bits get set from arg, there's no way for invalid bits to get
enabled there.

Lets fix it by simply removing the useless broken checks.

Signed-off-by: Jim Somerville 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: John McCutchan 
Cc: Robert Love 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify

2012-12-21T04:11:52+00:00

Pull filesystem notification updates from Eric Paris:
 "This pull mostly is about locking changes in the fsnotify system.  By
  switching the group lock from a spin_lock() to a mutex() we can now
  hold the lock across things like iput().  This fixes a problem
  involving unmounting a fs and having inodes be busy, first pointed out
  by FAT, but reproducible with tmpfs.

  This also restores signal driven I/O for inotify, which has been
  broken since about 2.6.32."

Ugh.  I *hate* the timing of this.  It was rebased after the merge
window opened, and then left to sit with the pull request coming the day
before the merge window closes.  That's just crap.  But apparently the
patches themselves have been around for over a year, just gathering
dust, so now it's suddenly critical.

Fixed up semantic conflict in fs/notify/fdinfo.c as per Stephen
Rothwell's fixes from -next.

* 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
  inotify: automatically restart syscalls
  inotify: dont skip removal of watch descriptor if creation of ignored event failed
  fanotify: dont merge permission events
  fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify
  fsnotify: change locking order
  fsnotify: dont put marks on temporary list when clearing marks by group
  fsnotify: introduce locked versions of fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark()
  fsnotify: pass group to fsnotify_destroy_mark()
  fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
  fanotify: add an extra flag to mark_remove_from_mask that indicates wheather a mark should be destroyed
  fsnotify: take groups mark_lock before mark lock
  fsnotify: use reference counting for groups
  fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group()
  inotify, fanotify: replace fsnotify_put_group() with fsnotify_destroy_group()

fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output

2012-12-18T01:15:28+00:00

The kernel keeps FAN_MARK_IGNORED_SURV_MODIFY bit separately from
fsnotify_mark::mask|ignored_mask thus put it in @mflags (mark flags)
field so the user-space reader will be able to detect if such bit were
used on mark creation procedure.

 | pos:	0
 | flags:	04002
 | fanotify flags:10 event-flags:0
 | fanotify mnt_id:12 mflags:40 mask:38 ignored_mask:40000003
 | fanotify ino:4f969 sdev:800013 mflags:0 mask:3b ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:69f90400c275b5b4

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Andrey Vagin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" 
Cc: Matthew Helsley 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper

2012-12-18T01:15:28+00:00

This allow us to print out fsnotify details such as watchee inode, device,
mask and optionally a file handle.

For inotify objects if kernel compiled with exportfs support the output
will be

 | pos:	0
 | flags:	02000000
 | inotify wd:3 ino:9e7e sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:7e9e0000640d1b6d
 | inotify wd:2 ino:a111 sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:11a1000020542153
 | inotify wd:1 ino:6b149 sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:49b1060023552153

If kernel compiled without exportfs support, the file handle
won't be provided but inode and device only.

 | pos:	0
 | flags:	02000000
 | inotify wd:3 ino:9e7e sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0
 | inotify wd:2 ino:a111 sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0
 | inotify wd:1 ino:6b149 sdev:800013 mask:800afce ignored_mask:0

For fanotify the output is like

 | pos:	0
 | flags:	04002
 | fanotify flags:10 event-flags:0
 | fanotify mnt_id:12 mask:3b ignored_mask:0
 | fanotify ino:50205 sdev:800013 mask:3b ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:05020500fb1d47e7

To minimize impact on general fsnotify code the new functionality
is gathered in fs/notify/fdinfo.c file.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Andrey Vagin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Matthew Helsley 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" 
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/notify/inode_mark.c: make fsnotify_find_inode_mark_locked() static

2012-12-18T01:15:13+00:00

Fixes following sparse warning:

  fs/notify/inode_mark.c:127:22: warning: symbol 'fsnotify_find_inode_mark_locked' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-12-13T20:00:02+00:00

Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...

inotify: automatically restart syscalls

2012-12-11T18:44:37+00:00

We were mistakenly returning EINTR when we found an outstanding signal.
Instead we should returen ERESTARTSYS and allow the kernel to handle
things the right way.

Patch-from: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

inotify: dont skip removal of watch descriptor if creation of ignored event failed

2012-12-11T18:44:37+00:00

In inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr() the removal of a watch descriptor is skipped
if the allocation of an ignored event failed and we are leaking memory (the
watch descriptor and the mark linked to it).
This patch ensures that the watch descriptor is removed regardless of whether
event creation failed or not.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fanotify: dont merge permission events

2012-12-11T18:44:37+00:00

Boyd Yang reported a problem for the case that multiple threads of the same
thread group are waiting for a reponse for a permission event.
In this case it is possible that some of the threads are never woken up, even
if the response for the event has been received
(see http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131822913806350&w=2).

The reason is that we are currently merging permission events if they belong to
the same thread group. But we are not prepared to wake up more than one waiter
for each event. We do

wait_event(group->fanotify_data.access_waitq, event->response ||
			atomic_read(&group->fanotify_data.bypass_perm));
and after that
  event->response = 0;

which is the reason that even if we woke up all waiters for the same event
some of them may see event->response being already set 0 again, then go back to
sleep and block forever.

With this patch we avoid that more than one thread is waiting for a response
by not merging permission events for the same thread group any more.

Reported-by: Boyd Yang 
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify

2012-12-11T18:44:36+00:00

inotify is supposed to support async signal notification when information
is available on the inotify fd.  This patch moves that support to generic
fsnotify functions so it can be used by all notification mechanisms.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris