linux-toradex.git/fs/super.c, branch v3.0.95

livelock avoidance in sget()

2013-08-04T07:43:40+00:00

commit acfec9a5a892f98461f52ed5770de99a3e571ae2 upstream.

Eric Sandeen has found a nasty livelock in sget() - take a mount(2) about
to fail.  The superblock is on ->fs_supers, ->s_umount is held exclusive,
->s_active is 1.  Along comes two more processes, trying to mount the same
thing; sget() in each is picking that superblock, bumping ->s_count and
trying to grab ->s_umount.  ->s_active is 3 now.  Original mount(2)
finally gets to deactivate_locked_super() on failure; ->s_active is 2,
superblock is still ->fs_supers because shutdown will *not* happen until
->s_active hits 0.  ->s_umount is dropped and now we have two processes
chasing each other:
s_active = 2, A acquired ->s_umount, B blocked
A sees that the damn thing is stillborn, does deactivate_locked_super()
s_active = 1, A drops ->s_umount, B gets it
A restarts the search and finds the same superblock.  And bumps it ->s_active.
s_active = 2, B holds ->s_umount, A blocked on trying to get it
... and we are in the earlier situation with A and B switched places.

The root cause, of course, is that ->s_active should not grow until we'd
got MS_BORN.  Then failing ->mount() will have deactivate_locked_super()
shut the damn thing down.  Fortunately, it's easy to do - the key point
is that grab_super() is called only for superblocks currently on ->fs_supers,
so it can bump ->s_count and grab ->s_umount first, then check MS_BORN and
bump ->s_active; we must never increment ->s_count for superblocks past
->kill_sb(), but grab_super() is never called for those.

The bug is pretty old; we would've caught it by now, if not for accidental
exclusion between sget() for block filesystems; the things like cgroup or
e.g. mtd-based filesystems don't have anything of that sort, so they get
bitten.  The right way to deal with that is obviously to fix sget()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wake up s_wait_unfrozen when ->freeze_fs fails

2012-05-21T16:40:05+00:00

commit e1616300a20c80396109c1cf013ba9a36055a3da upstream.

dd slept infinitely when fsfeeze failed because of EIO.
To fix this problem, if ->freeze_fs fails, freeze_super() wakes up
the tasks waiting for the filesystem to become unfrozen.

When s_frozen isn't SB_UNFROZEN in __generic_file_aio_write(),
the function sleeps until FITHAW ioctl wakes up s_wait_unfrozen.

However, if ->freeze_fs fails, s_frozen is set to SB_UNFROZEN and then
freeze_super() returns an error number. In this case, FITHAW ioctl returns
EINVAL because s_frozen is already SB_UNFROZEN. There is no way to wake up
s_wait_unfrozen, so __generic_file_aio_write() sleeps infinitely.

Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mio 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

more conservative S_NOSEC handling

2011-06-03T22:24:58+00:00

Caching "we have already removed suid/caps" was overenthusiastic as merged.
On network filesystems we might have had suid/caps set on another client,
silently picked by this client on revalidate, all of that *without* clearing
the S_NOSEC flag.

AFAICS, the only reasonably sane way to deal with that is
	* new superblock flag; unless set, S_NOSEC is not going to be set.
	* local block filesystems set it in their ->mount() (more accurately,
mount_bdev() does, so does btrfs ->mount(), users of mount_bdev() other than
local block ones clear it)
	* if any network filesystem (or a cluster one) wants to use S_NOSEC,
it'll need to set MS_NOSEC in sb->s_flags *AND* take care to clear S_NOSEC when
inode attribute changes are picked from other clients.

It's not an earth-shattering hole (anybody that can set suid on another client
will almost certainly be able to write to the file before doing that anyway),
but it's a bug that needs fixing.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2011-05-26T17:50:56+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem:
  xen: cleancache shim to Xen Transcendent Memory
  ocfs2: add cleancache support
  ext4: add cleancache support
  btrfs: add cleancache support
  ext3: add cleancache support
  mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache
  mm: cleancache core ops functions and config
  fs: add field to superblock to support cleancache
  mm/fs: cleancache documentation

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/btrfs/extent_io.c due to includes

mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache

2011-05-26T16:01:43+00:00

This fourth patch of eight in this cleancache series provides the
core hooks in VFS for: initializing cleancache per filesystem;
capturing clean pages reclaimed by page cache; attempting to get
pages from cleancache before filesystem read; and ensuring coherency
between pagecache, disk, and cleancache.  Note that the placement
of these hooks was stable from 2.6.18 to 2.6.38; a minor semantic
change was required due to a patchset in 2.6.39.

All hooks become no-ops if CONFIG_CLEANCACHE is unset, or become
a check of a boolean global if CONFIG_CLEANCACHE is set but no
cleancache "backend" has claimed cleancache_ops.

Details and a FAQ can be found in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt

[v8: minchan.kim@gmail.com: adapt to new remove_from_page_cache function]
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason 
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer 
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik Van Riel 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Ted Ts'o 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Nitin Gupta

VFS: trivial: fix comment on s_maxbytes value warning check

2011-05-19T14:10:49+00:00

I originally intended to remove this warning in 2.6.34, but it's not in
a high performance codepath and might help us to catch bugs later. Let's
keep it, but fix the comment to allay confusion about its removal.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: Steve French

Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2011-03-24T17:16:26+00:00

* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}

vfs: split off vfsmount-related parts of vfs_kern_mount()

2011-03-18T02:10:41+00:00

new function: mount_fs().  Does all work done by vfs_kern_mount()
except the allocation and filling of vfsmount; returns root dentry
or ERR_PTR().

vfs_kern_mount() switched to using it and taken to fs/namespace.c,
along with its wrappers.

alloc_vfsmnt()/free_vfsmnt() made static.

functions in namespace.c slightly reordered.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away

2011-03-17T10:13:12+00:00

We don't have proper reference counting for this yet, so we run into
cases where the device is pulled and we OOPS on flushing the fs data.
This happens even though the dirty inodes have already been
migrated to the default_backing_dev_info.

Reported-by: Torsten Hilbrich 
Tested-by: Torsten Hilbrich 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

vfs: bury ->get_sb()

2011-03-16T20:48:06+00:00

This is an ex-parrot.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro