linux-toradex.git/include/linux/fs.h, branch v3.14.3

get rid of fget_light()

2014-03-10T15:44:42+00:00

instead of returning the flags by reference, we can just have the
low-level primitive return those in lower bits of unsigned long,
with struct file * derived from the rest.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX

2014-03-10T15:44:41+00:00

Our write() system call has always been atomic in the sense that you get
the expected thread-safe contiguous write, but we haven't actually
guaranteed that concurrent writes are serialized wrt f_pos accesses, so
threads (or processes) that share a file descriptor and use "write()"
concurrently would quite likely overwrite each others data.

This violates POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4 Section XSI 2.9.7 that says:

 "2.9.7 Thread Interactions with Regular File Operations

  All of the following functions shall be atomic with respect to each
  other in the effects specified in POSIX.1-2008 when they operate on
  regular files or symbolic links: [...]"

and one of the effects is the file position update.

This unprotected file position behavior is not new behavior, and nobody
has ever cared.  Until now.  Yongzhi Pan reported unexpected behavior to
Michael Kerrisk that was due to this.

This resolves the issue with a f_pos-specific lock that is taken by
read/write/lseek on file descriptors that may be shared across threads
or processes.

Reported-by: Yongzhi Pan 
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2014-02-10T02:12:07+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "A couple of fixes, both -stable fodder.  The O_SYNC bug is fairly
  old..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix a kmap leak in virtio_console
  fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write()

fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write()

2014-02-09T20:18:09+00:00

It actually goes back to 2004 ([PATCH] Concurrent O_SYNC write support)
when sync_page_range() had been introduced; generic_file_write{,v}() correctly
synced
	pos_after_write - written .. pos_after_write - 1
but generic_file_aio_write() synced
	pos_before_write .. pos_before_write + written - 1
instead.  Which is not the same thing with O_APPEND, obviously.
A couple of years later correct variant had been killed off when
everything switched to use of generic_file_aio_write().

All users of generic_file_aio_write() are affected, and the same bug
has been copied into other instances of ->aio_write().

The fix is trivial; the only subtle point is that generic_write_sync()
ought to be inlined to avoid calculations useless for the majority of
calls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing

2014-02-05T20:54:53+00:00

This changes 'do_execve()' to get the executable name as a 'struct
filename', and to free it when it is done.  This is what the normal
users want, and it simplifies and streamlines their error handling.

The controlled lifetime of the executable name also fixes a
use-after-free problem with the trace_sched_process_exec tracepoint: the
lifetime of the passed-in string for kernel users was not at all
obvious, and the user-mode helper code used UMH_WAIT_EXEC to serialize
the pathname allocation lifetime with the execve() having finished,
which in turn meant that the trace point that happened after
mm_release() of the old process VM ended up using already free'd memory.

To solve the kernel string lifetime issue, this simply introduces
"getname_kernel()" that works like the normal user-space getname()
function, except with the source coming from kernel memory.

As Oleg points out, this also means that we could drop the tcomm[] array
from 'struct linux_binprm', since the pathname lifetime now covers
setup_new_exec().  That would be a separate cleanup.

Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov 
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: add a set_acl inode operation

2014-01-26T04:58:17+00:00

This will allow moving all the Posix ACL handling into the VFS and clean
up tons of cruft in the filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

consolidate simple ->d_delete() instances

2013-11-16T03:04:17+00:00

Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it.
Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of
their duplicates

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2013-11-13T06:34:18+00:00

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts:

   - RCU'd vfsmounts handling
   - new primitives for coredump handling
   - files_lock is gone
   - Bruce's delegations handling series
   - exportfs fixes

  plus misc stuff all over the place"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits)
  ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL
  locks: break delegations on any attribute modification
  locks: break delegations on link
  locks: break delegations on rename
  locks: helper functions for delegation breaking
  locks: break delegations on unlink
  namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup
  locks: implement delegations
  locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag
  vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file
  vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas
  vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories
  vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code
  exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup
  exportfs: better variable name
  exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function
  exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter
  exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove
  exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner
  exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect
  ...

locks: break delegations on any attribute modification

2013-11-09T05:16:44+00:00

NFSv4 uses leases to guarantee that clients can cache metadata as well
as data.

Cc: Mikulas Patocka 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Tyler Hicks 
Cc: Dustin Kirkland 
Acked-by: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

locks: break delegations on link

2013-11-09T05:16:43+00:00

Cc: Tyler Hicks 
Cc: Dustin Kirkland 
Acked-by: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro