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Jan Kara
a2a735ad66 ext2: Update comment about generic_osync_inode
We rely on generic_write_sync() now.

CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:16 +02:00
Jan Kara
148f948ba8 vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
Introduce new function for generic inode syncing (vfs_fsync_range) and use
it from fsync() path. Introduce also new helper for syncing after a sync
write (generic_write_sync) using the generic function.

Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes
O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really
care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire
it before it returns.

CC: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: tytso@mit.edu
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
eef9938067 vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw
character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case
generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to
blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Jan Kara
918941a3f3 ocfs2: Use __generic_file_aio_write instead of generic_file_aio_write_nolock
Use the new helper. We have to submit data pages ourselves in case of O_SYNC
write because __generic_file_aio_write does not do it for us. OCFS2 developpers
might think about moving the sync out of i_mutex which seems to be easily
possible but that's out of scope of this patch.

CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
86d710146f Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (87 commits)
  NFSv4: Disallow 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=2' and 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=3'
  NFS: Allow the "nfs" file system type to support NFSv4
  NFS: Move details of nfs4_get_sb() to a helper
  NFS: Refactor NFSv4 text-based mount option validation
  NFS: Mount option parser should detect missing "port="
  NFS: out of date comment regarding O_EXCL above nfs3_proc_create()
  NFS: Handle a zero-length auth flavor list
  SUNRPC: Ensure that sunrpc gets initialised before nfs, lockd, etc...
  nfs: fix compile error in rpc_pipefs.h
  nfs: Remove reference to generic_osync_inode from a comment
  SUNRPC: cache must take a reference to the cache detail's module on open()
  NFS: Use the DNS resolver in the mount code.
  NFS: Add a dns resolver for use with NFSv4 referrals and migration
  SUNRPC: Fix a typo in cache_pipefs_files
  nfs: nfs4xdr: optimize low level decoding
  nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of READ_BUF
  nfs: nfs4xdr: simplify decode_exchange_id by reusing decode_opaque_inline
  nfs: nfs4xdr: get rid of COPYMEM
  nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_sessionid helper
  nfs: nfs4xdr: introduce decode_verifier helper
  ...
2009-09-11 16:39:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
774a694f8c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
  sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
  sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
  sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
  sched: Turn off child_runs_first
  sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
  sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE
  sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
  sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
  sched: Clean up topology.h
  sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
  sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity
  sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
  sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
  sched: Add smt_gain
  sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
  ...
2009-09-11 13:23:18 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
ab3bbaa8b2 Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.32' 2009-09-11 14:59:37 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
a9c86d4259 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (377 commits)
  ASoC: au1x: PSC-AC97 bugfixes
  ALSA: dummy - Increase MAX_PCM_SUBSTREAMS to 128
  ALSA: dummy - Add debug proc file
  ALSA: Add const prefix to proc helper functions
  ALSA: Re-export snd_pcm_format_name() function
  ALSA: hda - Use auto model for HP laptops with ALC268 codec
  ALSA: cs46xx - Fix minimum period size
  ASoC: Fix WM835x Out4 capture enumeration
  ALSA: Remove unneeded ifdef from sound/core.h
  ALSA: Remove struct snd_monitor_file from public sound/core.h
  ASoC: Remove unuused hw_read_t
  sound: oxygen: work around MCE when changing volume
  ALSA: dummy - Fake buffer allocations
  ALSA: hda/realtek: Added support for CLEVO M540R subsystem, 6 channel + digital
  ASoC: fix pxa2xx-ac97.c breakage
  ALSA: dummy - Fix the timer calculation in systimer mode
  ALSA: dummy - Add more description
  ALSA: dummy - Better jiffies handling
  ALSA: dummy - Support high-res timer mode
  ALSA: Release v1.0.21
  ...
2009-09-11 09:19:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a12e4d304c Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
  writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
  writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
  writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
  writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
  writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
  writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
2009-09-11 09:17:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f6f7919086 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (57 commits)
  binfmt_elf: fix PT_INTERP bss handling
  TPM: Fixup boot probe timeout for tpm_tis driver
  sysfs: Add labeling support for sysfs
  LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security context information.
  VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx.
  KEYS: Add missing linux/tracehook.h #inclusions
  KEYS: Fix default security_session_to_parent()
  Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.c
  KEYS: security_cred_alloc_blank() should return int under all circumstances
  IMA: open new file for read
  KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
  KEYS: Extend TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to (almost) all architectures [try #6]
  KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups [try #6]
  KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position [try #6]
  KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. [try #6]
  KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED [try #6]
  KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm [try #6]
  KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately [try #6]
  CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
  selinux: Support for the new TUN LSM hooks
  ...
2009-09-11 08:55:49 -07:00
Jens Axboe
500b067c5e writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
Also a debugging aid. We want to catch dirty inodes being added to
backing devices that don't do writeback.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d993831fa7 writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d0bceac747 writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
It is now unused, so kill it off.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe
03ba3782e8 writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning.
pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more
threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a
non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy
behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved
for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that
does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive
during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in
vmstat:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  1      0 608848   2652 375372    0    0     0 71024  604    24  1 10 48 42
 0  1      0 549644   2712 433736    0    0     0 60692  505    27  1  8 48 44
 1  0      0 476928   2784 505192    0    0     4 29540  553    24  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 457972   2808 524008    0    0     0 54876  331    16  0  4 38 58
 0  1      0 366128   2928 614284    0    0     4 92168  710    58  0 13 53 34
 0  1      0 295092   3000 684140    0    0     0 62924  572    23  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 236592   3064 741704    0    0     4 58256  523    17  0  8 48 44
 0  1      0 165608   3132 811464    0    0     0 57460  560    21  0  8 54 38
 0  1      0 102952   3200 873164    0    0     4 74748  540    29  1 10 48 41
 0  1      0  48604   3252 926472    0    0     0 53248  469    29  0  7 47 45

where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  1      0 678716   5792 303380    0    0     0 74064  565    50  1 11 52 36
 1  0      0 662488   5864 319396    0    0     4   352  302   329  0  2 47 51
 0  1      0 599312   5924 381468    0    0     0 78164  516    55  0  9 51 40
 0  1      0 519952   6008 459516    0    0     4 78156  622    56  1 11 52 37
 1  1      0 436640   6092 541632    0    0     0 82244  622    54  0 11 48 41
 0  1      0 436640   6092 541660    0    0     0     8  152    39  0  0 51 49
 0  1      0 332224   6200 644252    0    0     4 102800  728    46  1 13 49 36
 1  0      0 274492   6260 701056    0    0     4 12328  459    49  0  7 50 43
 0  1      0 211220   6324 763356    0    0     0 106940  515    37  1 10 51 39
 1  0      0 160412   6376 813468    0    0     0  8224  415    43  0  6 49 45
 1  1      0  85980   6452 886556    0    0     4 113516  575    39  1 11 54 34
 0  2      0  85968   6452 886620    0    0     0  1640  158   211  0  0 46 54

A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A
SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with
the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only
manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered
writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed
writes.

A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term,
adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe
66f3b8e2e1 writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
This is a first step at introducing per-bdi flusher threads. We should
have no change in behaviour, although sb_has_dirty_inodes() is now
ridiculously expensive, as there's no easy way to answer that question.
Not a huge problem, since it'll be deleted in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d8a8559cd7 writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
This adds two new exported functions:

- writeback_inodes_sb(), which only attempts to writeback dirty inodes on
  this super_block, for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout.
- sync_inodes_sb(), which writes out all dirty inodes on this super_block
  and also waits for the IO to complete.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
James Morris
a3c8b97396 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-09-11 08:04:49 +10:00
Takashi Iwai
3827119e20 Merge branch 'topic/soundcore-preclaim' into for-linus
* topic/soundcore-preclaim:
  sound: make OSS device number claiming optional and schedule its removal
  sound: request char-major-* module aliases for missing OSS devices
  chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev()
2009-09-10 15:33:04 +02:00
Roland McGrath
9f0ab4a3f0 binfmt_elf: fix PT_INTERP bss handling
In fs/binfmt_elf.c, load_elf_interp() calls padzero() for .bss even if
the PT_LOAD has no PROT_WRITE and no .bss.  This generates EFAULT.

Here is a small test case.  (Yes, there are other, useful PT_INTERP
which have only .text and no .data/.bss.)

	----- ptinterp.S
	_start: .globl _start
		 nop
		 int3
	-----
	$ gcc -m32 -nostartfiles -nostdlib -o ptinterp ptinterp.S
	$ gcc -m32 -Wl,--dynamic-linker=ptinterp -o hello hello.c
	$ ./hello
	Segmentation fault  # during execve() itself

	After applying the patch:
	$ ./hello
	Trace trap  # user-mode execution after execve() finishes

If the ELF headers are actually self-inconsistent, then dying is fine.
But having no PROT_WRITE segment is perfectly normal and correct if
there is no segment with p_memsz > p_filesz (i.e. bss).  John Reiser
suggested checking for PROT_WRITE in the bss logic.  I think it makes
most sense to simply apply the bss logic only when there is bss.

This patch looks less trivial than it is due to some reindentation.
It just moves the "if (last_bss > elf_bss) {" test up to include the
partial-page bss logic as well as the more-pages bss logic.

Reported-by: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10 20:11:12 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
526b678093 Merge branch 'lookup-permissions-cleanup'
* lookup-permissions-cleanup:
  jffs2/jfs/xfs: switch over to 'check_acl' rather than 'permission()'
  ext[234]: move over to 'check_acl' permission model
  shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission'
  Make 'check_acl()' a first-class filesystem op
  Simplify exec_permission_lite(), part 3
  Simplify exec_permission_lite() further
  Simplify exec_permission_lite() logic
  Do not call 'ima_path_check()' for each path component
2009-09-09 20:04:54 -07:00
Roland McGrath
752015d1b0 binfmt_elf: fix PT_INTERP bss handling
In fs/binfmt_elf.c, load_elf_interp() calls padzero() for .bss even if
the PT_LOAD has no PROT_WRITE and no .bss.  This generates EFAULT.

Here is a small test case.  (Yes, there are other, useful PT_INTERP
which have only .text and no .data/.bss.)

	----- ptinterp.S
	_start: .globl _start
		 nop
		 int3
	-----
	$ gcc -m32 -nostartfiles -nostdlib -o ptinterp ptinterp.S
	$ gcc -m32 -Wl,--dynamic-linker=ptinterp -o hello hello.c
	$ ./hello
	Segmentation fault  # during execve() itself

	After applying the patch:
	$ ./hello
	Trace trap  # user-mode execution after execve() finishes

If the ELF headers are actually self-inconsistent, then dying is fine.
But having no PROT_WRITE segment is perfectly normal and correct if
there is no segment with p_memsz > p_filesz (i.e. bss).  John Reiser
suggested checking for PROT_WRITE in the bss logic.  I think it makes
most sense to simply apply the bss logic only when there is bss.

This patch looks less trivial than it is due to some reindentation.
It just moves the "if (last_bss > elf_bss) {" test up to include the
partial-page bss logic as well as the more-pages bss logic.

Reported-by: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-09 20:03:47 -07:00
David P. Quigley
ddd29ec659 sysfs: Add labeling support for sysfs
This patch adds a setxattr handler to the file, directory, and symlink
inode_operations structures for sysfs. The patch uses hooks introduced in the
previous patch to handle the getting and setting of security information for
the sysfs inodes. As was suggested by Eric Biederman the struct iattr in the
sysfs_dirent structure has been replaced by a structure which contains the
iattr, secdata and secdata length to allow the changes to persist in the event
that the inode representing the sysfs_dirent is evicted. Because sysfs only
stores this information when a change is made all the optional data is moved
into one dynamically allocated field.

This patch addresses an issue where SELinux was denying virtd access to the PCI
configuration entries in sysfs. The lack of setxattr handlers for sysfs
required that a single label be assigned to all entries in sysfs. Granting virtd
access to every entry in sysfs is not an acceptable solution so fine grained
labeling of sysfs is required such that individual entries can be labeled
appropriately.

[sds:  Fixed compile-time warnings, coding style, and setting of inode security init flags.]

Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10 10:11:29 +10:00
David P. Quigley
b1ab7e4b2a VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx.
This factors out the part of the vfs_setxattr function that performs the
setting of the xattr and its notification. This is needed so the SELinux
implementation of inode_setsecctx can handle the setting of the xattr while
maintaining the proper separation of layers.

Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10 10:11:22 +10:00
Trond Myklebust
2ecda72b49 NFSv4: Disallow 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=2' and 'mount -t nfs4 -overs=3'
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-09-08 19:50:07 -04:00
Chuck Lever
764302ccb8 NFS: Allow the "nfs" file system type to support NFSv4
When mounting an "nfs" type file system, recognize "v4," "vers=4," or
"nfsvers=4" mount options, and convert the file system to "nfs4" under
the covers.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
[trondmy: fixed up binary mount code so it sets the 'version' field too]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-09-08 19:50:03 -04:00
Chuck Lever
a6fe23be90 NFS: Move details of nfs4_get_sb() to a helper
Clean up: Refactor nfs4_get_sb() to allow its guts to be invoked by
nfs_get_sb().

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-09-08 19:50:00 -04:00
Chuck Lever
7630c852e1 NFS: Refactor NFSv4 text-based mount option validation
Clean up: Refactor the part of nfs4_validate_mount_options() that
handles text-based options, so we can call it from the NFSv2/v3
option validation function.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-09-08 19:49:57 -04:00
Chuck Lever
4cfd74fc99 NFS: Mount option parser should detect missing "port="
The meaning of not specifying the "port=" mount option is different
for "-t nfs" and "-t nfs4" mounts.  The default port value for
NFSv2/v3 mounts is 0, but the default for NFSv4 mounts is 2049.

To support "-t nfs -o vers=4", the mount option parser must detect
when "port=" is missing so that the correct default port value can be
set depending on which NFS version is requested.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-09-08 19:49:47 -04:00
Harshula Jayasuriya
dbab8360ed NFS: out of date comment regarding O_EXCL above nfs3_proc_create()
Hi Trond,

Recently we were observing the behaviour difference between a 2.4.x and
2.6.x kernel with respect to O_EXCL. A comment from 2.4.x era, "For now,
we don't implement O_EXCL." seems inaccurate in TOT.

If so, here's a patch to remove the comment.

This patch is against:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Signed-off-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-09-08 19:49:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
18f4c64477 jffs2/jfs/xfs: switch over to 'check_acl' rather than 'permission()'
This avoids an indirect call in the VFS for each path component lookup.

Well, at least as long as you own the directory in question, and the ACL
check is unnecessary.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:09:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d5ccd1c42 ext[234]: move over to 'check_acl' permission model
Don't implement per-filesystem 'extX_permission()' functions that have
to be called for every path component operation, and instead just expose
the actual ACL checking so that the VFS layer can now do it for us.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:09:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5909ccaa30 Make 'check_acl()' a first-class filesystem op
This is stage one in flattening out the callchains for the common
permission testing.  Rather than have most filesystem implement their
own inode->i_op->permission function that just calls back down to the
VFS layers 'generic_permission()' with the per-filesystem ACL checking
function, the filesystem can just expose its 'check_acl' function
directly, and let the VFS layer do everything for it.

This is all just preparatory - no filesystem actually enables this yet.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cb9179ead0 Simplify exec_permission_lite(), part 3
Don't call down to the generic inode_permission() function just to
call the inode-specific permission function - just do it directly.

The generic inode_permission() code does things like checking MAY_WRITE
and devcgroup_inode_permission(), neither of which are relevant for the
light pathname walk permission checks (we always do just MAY_EXEC, and
the inode is never a special device).

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f1ac9f6bfe Simplify exec_permission_lite() further
This function is only called for path components that are already known
to be directories (they have a '->lookup' method).  So don't bother
doing that whole S_ISDIR() testing, the whole point of the 'lite()'
version is that we know that we are looking at a directory component,
and that we're only checking name lookup permission.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b7a437b08a Simplify exec_permission_lite() logic
Instead of returning EAGAIN and having the caller do something
special for that case,  just do the special case directly.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e8e66ed25b Do not call 'ima_path_check()' for each path component
Not only is that a supremely timing-critical path, but it's hopefully
some day going to be lockless for the common case, and ima can't do
that.

Plus the integrity code doesn't even care about non-regular files, so it
was always a total waste of time and effort.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:17 -07:00
Mimi Zohar
acd0c93517 IMA: update ima_counts_put
- As ima_counts_put() may be called after the inode has been freed,
verify that the inode is not NULL, before dereferencing it.

- Maintain the IMA file counters in may_open() properly, decrementing
any counter increments on subsequent errors.

Reported-by: Ciprian Docan <docan@eden.rutgers.edu>
Reported-by: J.R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07 11:54:58 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
5136a6c0fd Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31:
  JFFS2: add missing verify buffer allocation/deallocation
  mtd: nftl: fix offset alignments
  mtd: nftl: write support is broken
  mtd: m25p80: fix null pointer dereference bug
2009-09-05 14:57:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0edfa2b1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: actually enable the swapext compat handler
2009-09-05 14:25:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5a09adf130 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: fix preempt count underflow in nilfs_btnode_prepare_change_key
2009-09-05 14:24:33 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
9de6886ec6 ext2: fix unbalanced kmap()/kunmap()
In ext2_rename(), dir_page is acquired through ext2_dotdot().  It is
then released through ext2_set_link() but only if old_dir != new_dir.
Failing that, the pkmap reference count is never decremented and the
page remains pinned forever.  Repeat that a couple times with highmem
pages and all pkmap slots get exhausted, and every further kmap() calls
end up stalling on the pkmap_map_wait queue at which point the whole
system comes to a halt.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 13:41:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ac7ac9f2b9 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() should handle len=0
  ocfs2: invalidate dentry if its dentry_lock isn't initialized.
2009-09-05 13:38:37 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
a2a8474c3f exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutex
Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read
/proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since

	"mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec"
	04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d

commit in 2.6.31.

But the root of the problem lies in the fact that do_execve() path calls
tracehook_report_exec() which can stop if the tracer sets PT_TRACE_EXEC.

The tracee must not sleep in TASK_TRACED holding this mutex.  Even if we
remove ->cred_guard_mutex from mm_for_maps() and proc_pid_attr_write(),
another task doing PTRACE_ATTACH should not hang until it is killed or the
tracee resumes.

With this patch do_execve() does not use ->cred_guard_mutex directly and
we do not hold it throughout, instead:

	- introduce prepare_bprm_creds() helper, it locks the mutex
	  and calls prepare_exec_creds() to initialize bprm->cred.

	- install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(),
	  and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop().

	  or, if exec fails,

	  free_bprm() drops this mutex when bprm->cred != NULL which
	  indicates install_exec_creds() was not called.

Reported-by: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00
Sunil Mushran
8379e7c46c ocfs2: ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() should handle len=0
Bug introduced by mainline commit e7432675f8
The bug causes ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() to oops when len=0.

Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2009-09-04 14:28:31 -07:00
Massimo Cirillo
bc8cec0dff JFFS2: add missing verify buffer allocation/deallocation
The function jffs2_nor_wbuf_flash_setup() doesn't allocate the verify buffer
if CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY is defined, so causing a kernel panic when
that macro is enabled and the verify function is called. Similarly the
jffs2_nor_wbuf_flash_cleanup() must free the buffer if
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WBUF_VERIFY is enabled.
The following patch fixes the problem.
The following patch applies to 2.6.30 kernel.

Signed-off-by: Massimo Cirillo <maxcir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-09-03 15:01:34 +01:00
Mimi Zohar
6c1488fd58 IMA: open new file for read
When creating a new file, ima_path_check() assumed the new file
was being opened for write. Call ima_path_check() with the
appropriate acc_mode so that the read/write counters are
incremented correctly.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-03 12:06:12 +10:00
David Howells
e0e817392b CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
Add a config option (CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS) to turn on some debug checking
for credential management.  The additional code keeps track of the number of
pointers from task_structs to any given cred struct, and checks to see that
this number never exceeds the usage count of the cred struct (which includes
all references, not just those from task_structs).

Furthermore, if SELinux is enabled, the code also checks that the security
pointer in the cred struct is never seen to be invalid.

This attempts to catch the bug whereby inode_has_perm() faults in an nfsd
kernel thread on seeing cred->security be a NULL pointer (it appears that the
credential struct has been previously released):

	http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=252883

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-02 21:29:01 +10:00
Ingo Molnar
f14eff1cc2 Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc8' into sched/core
Merge reason: bump from rc5 to rc8, but also pick up TP_perf_assign()
              API, a patch will be queued that depends on it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-02 08:20:35 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
3725867dcc xfs: actually enable the swapext compat handler
Fix a small typo in the compat ioctl handler that cause the swapext
compat handler to never be called.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
2009-09-01 17:00:46 -05:00
Ian Kent
37d0892c5a autofs4 - fix missed case when changing to use struct path
In the recent change by Al Viro that changes verious subsystems
to use "struct path" one case was missed in the autofs4 module
which causes mounts to no longer expire.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-31 17:44:05 -10:00