Symlinks to a config_item are listed under its configfs_dirent s_links, but the
list mutations are not protected by any common lock.
This patch uses the configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to add the necessary
protection.
Note: we should also protect the list_empty() test in configfs_detach_prep() but
1/ the lock should not be released immediately because nothing would prevent the
list from being filled after a successful list_empty() test, making the problem
tricky,
2/ this will be solved by the rmdir() vs rename() deadlock bugfix.
Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
This patch introduces configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to protect configfs_dirent
traversals against linkage mutations (add/del/move). This will allow
configfs_detach_prep() to avoid locking i_mutexes.
Locking rules for configfs_dirent linkage mutations are the same plus the
requirement of taking configfs_dirent_lock. For configfs_dirent walking, one can
either take appropriate i_mutex as before, or take configfs_dirent_lock.
The spinlock could actually be a mutex, but the critical sections are either
O(1) or should not be too long (default groups walking in last patch).
ChangeLog:
- Clarify the comment on configfs_dirent_lock usage
- Move sd->s_element init before linking the new dirent
- In lseek(), do not release configfs_dirent_lock before the dirent is
relinked.
Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Some system files are per-slot. Their names include the slot number.
ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name() uses the system inode definitions to
fill in the slot number with snprintf().
For global system files, there is no node number, and the name was
printed as a format with no arguments. -Wformat-nonliteral and
-Wformat-security don't like this. Instead, use a static "%s" format
and the name as the argument.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
A couple places use OCFS2_DEBUG_FS where they really mean
CONFIG_OCFS2_DEBUG_FS.
Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
suseconds_t is type long on most arches except sparc64 where it is type int.
This patch silences the following warnings that are generated when building
on it.
netdebug.c: In function 'nst_seq_show':
netdebug.c:152: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 13 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c:152: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 15 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c:152: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 17 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c: In function 'sc_seq_show':
netdebug.c:332: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 19 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c:332: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 21 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c:332: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 23 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c:332: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 25 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c:332: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 27 has type 'suseconds_t'
netdebug.c:332: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 29 has type 'suseconds_t'
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch ensures the mount fails if the fs is unable to load the journal.
Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch silences an EINVAL error message in ocfs2_file_aio_read()
that is always due to a user error.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Fix printk format warnings when OCFS2_FS_STATS=n:
linux-next-20080528/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c: In function 'ocfs2_dlm_seq_show':
linux-next-20080528/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:2623: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'int'
linux-next-20080528/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:2623: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'int'
linux-next-20080528/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:2623: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 7 has type 'int'
linux-next-20080528/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:2623: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 8 has type 'int'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch adds code to track the number of times the fs takes
various cluster locks as well as the times associated with it.
The information is made available to users via debugfs.
This patch was originally written by Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
This patch adds config option CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_STATS to allow building
the fs with instrumentation enabled. An upcoming patch will provide
support to instrument cluster locking, which is a crucial overhead in
a cluster file system. This config option allows users to avoid the cpu
and memory overhead that is involved in gathering such statistics.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
The current definition of wksidarr works fine on little endian arches
(since cpu_to_le32 is a no-op there), but on big-endian arches, it fails
to compile with this error:
error: braced-group within expression allowed only inside a function
The problem is that this static declaration has cpu_to_le32 embedded
within it, and that expands into a function macro. We need to use
__constant_cpu_to_le32() instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Try this:
mount a share with unix extensions
create a file on it
umount the share
You'll get the following message in the ring buffer:
VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of cifs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a
nice day...
...the problem is that cifs_get_inode_info_unix is creating and hashing
a new inode even when it's going to return error anyway. The first
lookup when creating a file returns an error so we end up leaking this
inode before we do the actual create. This appears to be a regression
caused by commit 0e4bbde94f.
The following patch seems to fix it for me, and fixes a minor
formatting nit as well.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When we release the iclog, we do an atomic_dec_and_lock to determine if
we are the last reference and need to trigger update of log headers and
writeout. However, in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() we also need to
check if we have the last reference count there. If we do, we release
the log buffer, otherwise we decrement the reference count.
But the compare and decrement in xlog_state_get_iclog_space() is not
atomic, so both places can see a reference count of 2 and neither will
release the iclog. That leads to a filesystem hang.
Close the race by replacing the atomic_read() and atomic_dec() pair with
atomic_add_unless() to ensure that they are executed atomically.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kernel Bugzilla #11063 points out that on some architectures (e.g. x86_32)
exec'ing an ELF without a PT_GNU_STACK program header should default to an
executable stack; but this got broken by the unlimited argv feature because
stack vma is now created before the right personality has been established:
so breaking old binaries using nested function trampolines.
Therefore re-evaluate VM_STACK_FLAGS in setup_arg_pages, where stack
vm_flags used to be set, before the mprotect_fixup. Checking through
our existing VM_flags, none would have changed since insert_vm_struct:
so this seems safer than finding a way through the personality labyrinth.
Reported-by: pageexec@freemail.hu
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The stack-glue merge changed the way we use flags in dlmglue in that we now
use the fs/dlm equivalents. Unfortunately, a merge error left the new flock
code only partially updated. This took a while to show up though, because
the lock level constants are actually identical between o2dlm and fs/dlm.
The *_CONVERT and *_NOQUEUE flags have different values though, which is
eventually causing a crash in flags_to_o2dlm().
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
SUNRPC: Fix an rpcbind breakage for the case of IPv6 lookups
SUNRPC: Fix a double-free in rpcbind
NFS: Fix readdir cache invalidation
With the removal of struct file from the xattr code,
reiserfs_file_release() isn't used anymore, so the prealloc isn't
discarded. This causes hangs later down the line.
This patch adds it to reiserfs_delete_inode. In most cases it will be a
no-op due to it already having been called, but will avoid hangs with
xattrs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
invalidate_inode_pages2_range() takes page offset arguments, not byte
ranges.
Another thought is that individual pages might perhaps get evicted by VM
pressure, in which case we might perhaps want to re-read not only the
evicted page, but all subsequent pages too (in case the server returns
more/less data per page so that the alignment of the next entry
changes). We should therefore remove the condition that we only do this on
page->index==0.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Patch fixes a race that can result in an oops while adding a
lockres to the dlm lockres tracking list.
Bug introduced by mainline commit 29576f8bb5.
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Fix some issues in pagemap_read noted by Alexey:
- initialize pagemap_walk.mm to "mm" , so the code starts working as
advertised
- initialize ->private to "&pm" so it wouldn't immediately oops in
pagemap_pte_hole()
- unstatic struct pagemap_walk, so two threads won't fsckup each other
(including those started by root, including flipping ->mm when you don't
have permissions)
- pagemap_read() contains two calls to ptrace_may_attach(), second one
looks unneeded.
- avoid possible kmalloc(0) and integer wraparound.
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Personally, I'd just remove the functionality entirely - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't use a static entry, so as to prevent races during concurrent use
of this function.
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit includes a bugfix for the fragile setuid fixup code in the
case that filesystem capabilities are supported (in access()). The effect
of this fix is gated on filesystem capability support because changing
securebits is only supported when filesystem capabilities support is
configured.)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The url in the help text for ntfs should be updated.
Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The misc_mtx should provide all the protection required to keep the daemon
hash table sane during miscdev registration. Since this mutex is causing
gratuitous lockdep warnings, this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When write in reiserfs_quota_write() fails, we have to properly release
i_mutex. One error path has been missing the unlock...
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When write in ext4_quota_write() fails, we have to properly release
i_mutex. One error path has been missing the unlock...
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When write in ext3_quota_write() fails, we have to properly release
i_mutex. One error path has been missing the unlock...
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The legacy protocol's open operation doesn't handle an append operation
(it is expected that the client take care of it). We were incorrectly
passing the extended protocol's flag through even in legacy mode. This
was reported in bugzilla report #10689. This patch fixes the problem
by disallowing extended protocol open modes from being passed in legacy
mode and implemented append functionality on the client side by adding
a seek after the open.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
fsync_buffers_list() and sync_dirty_buffer() both issue async writes and
then immediately wait on them. Conceptually, that makes them sync writes
and we should treat them as such so that the IO schedulers can handle
them appropriately.
This patch fixes a write starvation issue that Lin Ming reported, where
xx is stuck for more than 2 minutes because of a large number of
synchronous IO in the system:
INFO: task kjournald:20558 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this
message.
kjournald D ffff810010820978 6712 20558 2
ffff81022ddb1d10 0000000000000046 ffff81022e7baa10 ffffffff803ba6f2
ffff81022ecd0000 ffff8101e6dc9160 ffff81022ecd0348 000000008048b6cb
0000000000000086 ffff81022c4e8d30 0000000000000000 ffffffff80247537
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff803ba6f2>] kobject_get+0x12/0x17
[<ffffffff80247537>] getnstimeofday+0x2f/0x83
[<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f
[<ffffffff8066d195>] io_schedule+0x5d/0x9f
[<ffffffff8029c1e7>] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x3f
[<ffffffff8066d3f0>] __wait_on_bit+0x40/0x6f
[<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f
[<ffffffff8066d48b>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6c/0x78
[<ffffffff80243909>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
[<ffffffff8029e3ad>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x98/0xcb
[<ffffffff8030056b>] journal_commit_transaction+0x97d/0xcb6
[<ffffffff8023a676>] lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4b
[<ffffffff8030300a>] kjournald+0xc1/0x1fb
[<ffffffff802438db>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
[<ffffffff80302f49>] kjournald+0x0/0x1fb
[<ffffffff802437bb>] kthread+0x47/0x74
[<ffffffff8022de51>] schedule_tail+0x28/0x5d
[<ffffffff8020cac8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
[<ffffffff80243774>] kthread+0x0/0x74
[<ffffffff8020cabe>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
Lin Ming confirms that this patch fixes the issue. I've run tests with
it for the past week and no ill effects have been observed, so I'm
proposing it for inclusion into 2.6.26.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch fixes bz 450641.
This patch changes the computation for zero_metapath_length(), which it
renames to metapath_branch_start(). When you are extending the metadata
tree, The indirect blocks that point to the new data block must either
diverge from the existing tree either at the inode, or at the first
indirect block. They can diverge at the first indirect block because the
inode has room for 483 pointers while the indirect blocks have room for
509 pointers, so when the tree is grown, there is some free space in the
first indirect block. What metapath_branch_start() now computes is the
height where the first indirect block for the new data block is located.
It can either be 1 (if the indirect block diverges from the inode) or 2
(if it diverges from the first indirect block).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes bugzilla bug bz448866: gfs2: BUG: unable to
handle kernel paging request at ffff81002690e000.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In some cases it could happen that some block passed test in
udf_check_anchor_block() even though udf_read_tagged() refused to read it later
(e.g. because checksum was not correct). This patch makes
udf_check_anchor_block() use udf_read_tagged() so that the checking is
stricter.
This fixes the regression (certain disks unmountable) caused by commit
423cf6dc04.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fix a sign issue in xdr_decode_fhstatus3()
Fix incorrect comparison in nfs_validate_mount_data()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Fix the following sparse warnings:
fs/dcache.c:2183:19: warning: symbol 'filp_cachep' was not declared. Should it be static?
fs/dcache.c:115:3: warning: context imbalance in 'dentry_iput' - unexpected unlock
fs/dcache.c:188:2: warning: context imbalance in 'dput' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:400:2: warning: context imbalance in 'prune_one_dentry' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:431:22: warning: context imbalance in 'prune_dcache' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:563:2: warning: context imbalance in 'shrink_dcache_sb' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/dcache.c:1385:6: warning: context imbalance in 'd_delete' - wrong count at exit
fs/dcache.c:1636:2: warning: context imbalance in '__d_unalias' - unexpected unlock
fs/dcache.c:1735:2: warning: context imbalance in 'd_materialise_unique' - different lock contexts for basic block
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The path that __d_path() computes can become slightly inconsistent when it
races with mount operations: it grabs the vfsmount_lock when traversing mount
points but immediately drops it again, only to re-grab it when it reaches the
next mount point. The result is that the filename computed is not always
consisent, and the file may never have had that name. (This is unlikely, but
still possible.)
Fix this by grabbing the vfsmount_lock for the whole duration of
__d_path().
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fl_insert and fl_remove are not used right now in the kernel. Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
generic_readlink calls ERR_PTR for negative and positive values
(vfs_readlink returns length of "link"), but it should not
(not an errno) and does not need to.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Here are some more places where path_{get,put}() can be used instead of
dput()/mntput() pair.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The POSIX.1 draft spec for futimens()/utimensat() says:
Only a process with the effective user ID equal to the
user ID of the file, *or with write access to the file*,
or with appropriate privileges may use futimens() or
utimensat() with a null pointer as the times argument
or with both tv_nsec fields set to the special value
UTIME_NOW.
The important piece here is "with write access to the file", and
this matters for futimens(), which deals with an argument that
is a file descriptor referring to the file whose timestamps are
being updated, The standard is saying that the "writability"
check is based on the file permissions, not the access mode with
which the file is opened. (This behavior is consistent with the
semantics of FreeBSD's futimes().) However, Linux is currently
doing the latter -- futimens(fd, times) is a library
function implemented as
utimensat(fd, NULL, times, 0)
and within the utimensat() implementation we have the code:
f = fget(dfd); // dfd is 'fd'
...
if (f) {
if (!(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;
The check should instead be based on the file permissions.
Thanks to Miklos for pointing out how to do this check.
Miklos also pointed out a simplification that could be
made to my first version of this patch, since the checks
for the pathname and file descriptor cases can now be
conflated.
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says:
Only a process with the effective user ID equal to the
user ID of the file or with appropriate privileges may use
futimens() or utimensat() with a non-null times argument
that does not have both tv_nsec fields set to UTIME_NOW
and does not have both tv_nsec fields set to UTIME_OMIT.
If this condition is violated, then the error EPERM should result.
However, the current implementation does not generate EPERM if
one tv_nsec field is UTIME_NOW while the other is UTIME_OMIT.
It should give this error for that case.
This patch:
a) Repairs that problem.
b) Removes the now unneeded nsec_special() helper function.
c) Adds some comments to explain the checks that are being
performed.
Thanks to Miklos, who provided comments on the previous iteration
of this patch. As a result, this version is a little simpler and
and its logic is better structured.
Miklos suggested an alternative idea, migrating the
is_owner_or_cap() checks into fs/attr.c:inode_change_ok() via
the use of an ATTR_OWNER_CHECK flag. Maybe we could do that
later, but for now I've gone with this version, which is
IMO simpler, and can be more easily read as being correct.
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>