linux-toradex.git/fs/read_write.c, branch v3.9-rc3

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

2013-03-02T16:34:06+00:00

Pull signal/compat fixes from Al Viro:
 "Fixes for several regressions introduced in the last signal.git pile,
  along with fixing bugs in truncate and ftruncate compat (on just about
  anything biarch at least one of those two had been done wrong)."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  compat: restore timerfd settime and gettime compat syscalls
  [regression] braino in "sparc: convert to ksignal"
  fix compat truncate/ftruncate
  switch lseek to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  lseek() and truncate() on sparc really need sign extension

switch lseek to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

2013-02-24T15:52:26+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: file_inode(file)

2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sendfile: allows bypassing of notifier events

2012-12-21T01:40:21+00:00

do_sendfile() in fs/read_write.c does not call the fsnotify functions,
unlike its neighbors.  This manifests as a lack of inotify ACCESS events
when a file is sent using sendfile(2).

Addresses
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12812

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use fsnotify_modify(out.file), not fsnotify_access(), per Dave]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Scott Wolchok 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"

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

But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation

2012-10-03T01:35:55+00:00

This function is used by sparc, powerpc and arm64 for compat support.
The patch adds a generic implementation which calls do_sendfile()
directly and avoids set_fs().

The sparc architecture has wrappers for the sign extensions while
powerpc relies on the compiler to do the this. The patch adds wrappers
for powerpc to handle the u32->int type conversion.

compat_sys_sendfile64() can be replaced by a sys_sendfile() call since
compat_loff_t has the same size as off_t on a 64-bit system.

On powerpc, the patch also changes the 64-bit sendfile call from
sys_sendile64 to sys_sendfile.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget

2012-09-27T02:20:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code

2012-07-22T20:00:15+00:00

For ext3/4 htree directories, using the vfs llseek function with
SEEK_END goes to i_size like for any other file, but in reality
we want the maximum possible hash value.  Recent changes
in ext4 have cut & pasted generic_file_llseek() back into fs/ext4/dir.c,
but replicating this core code seems like a bad idea, especially
since the copy has already diverged from the vfs.

This patch updates generic_file_llseek_size to accept
both a custom maximum offset, and a custom EOF position.  With this
in place, ext4_dir_llseek can pass in the appropriate maximum hash
position for both maxsize and eof, and get what it wants.

As far as I know, this does not fix any bugs - nfs in the kernel
doesn't use SEEK_END, and I don't know of any user who does.  But
some ext4 folks seem keen on doing the right thing here, and I can't
really argue.

(Patch also fixes up some comments slightly)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()

2012-06-01T00:49:32+00:00

A cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector after
changes made to support CMA in an earlier patch.

Rather than having an additional check_access parameter to these
functions, the first paramater type is overloaded to allow the caller to
specify CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY which means check that the contents of the iovec
are valid, but do not check the memory that they point to.  This is used
by process_vm_readv/writev where we need to validate that a iovec passed
to the syscall is valid but do not want to check the memory that it points
to at this point because it refers to an address space in another process.

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh 
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible

2012-02-29T00:31:58+00:00

For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map
them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even
using those, then just delete the include.  Fix up any implicit
include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along
the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker