Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic open+create
operation implemented via ->create. No functionality is changed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic lookup+open+create
operation implemented via ->lookup and ->create operations.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
What was the purpose of this?
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic lookup+open+create
operation implemented via ->lookup and ->create operations.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic open+create
operation implemented via ->create. No functionality is changed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
is_atomic_open() is now only used by nfs4_lookup_revalidate() to check whether
it's okay to skip normal revalidation.
It does a racy check for mount read-onlyness and falls back to normal
revalidation if the open would fail. This makes little sense now that this
function isn't used for determining whether to actually open the file or not.
The d_mountpoint() check still makes sense since it is an indication that we
might be following a mount and so open may not revalidate the dentry.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Instead check LOOKUP_EXCL in nd->flags, which is basically what the open intent
flags were used for.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Don't pass nfs_open_context() to ->create(). Only the NFS4 implementation
needed that and only because it wanted to return an open file using open
intents. That task has been replaced by ->atomic_open so it is not necessary
anymore to pass the context to the create rpc operation.
Despite nfs4_proc_create apparently being okay with a NULL context it Oopses
somewhere down the call chain. So allocate a context here.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Replace NFS4 specific ->lookup implementation with ->atomic_open impelementation
and use the generic nfs_lookup for other lookups.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add a new inode operation which is called on the last component of an open.
Using this the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in one
atomic operation. If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type turned out to
be wrong) it may signal this by returning NULL instead of an open struct file
pointer.
i_op->atomic_open() is only called if the last component is negative or needs
lookup. Handling cached positive dentries here doesn't add much value: these
can be opened using f_op->open(). If the cached file turns out to be invalid,
the open can be retried, this time using ->atomic_open() with a fresh dentry.
For now leave the old way of using open intents in lookup and revalidate in
place. This will be removed once all the users are converted.
David Howells noticed that if ->atomic_open() opens the file but does not create
it, handle_truncate() will be called on it even if it is not a regular file.
Fix this by checking the file type in this case too.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Copy __lookup_hash() into lookup_open(). The next patch will insert the atomic
open call just before the real lookup.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Split out lookup + maybe create from do_last(). This is the part under i_mutex
protection.
The function is called lookup_open() and returns a filp even though the open
part is not used yet.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Make the slow lookup part of O_CREAT and non-O_CREAT opens common.
This allows atomic_open to be hooked into the slow lookup part.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Check O_CREAT on the slow lookup paths where necessary. This allows the rest to
be shared with plain open.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
no need for kludgy "set cookie to ERR_PTR(...) because we failed
before we did actual ->follow_link() and want to suppress put_link()",
no pointless check in put_link() itself.
Callers checked if follow_link() has failed anyway; might as well
break out of their loops if that happened, without bothering
to call put_link() first.
[AV: folded fixes from hch]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
we used to need to clean it in RCU callback freeing an inode;
in 3.2 that requirement went away. Unfortunately, it hadn't
been reflected in Documentation/filesystems/porting.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
don't rely on proc_mounts->m being the first field; container_of()
is there for purpose. No need to bother with ->private, while
we are at it - the same container_of will do nicely.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
it's enough to set ->mnt_ns of internal vfsmounts to something
distinct from all struct mnt_namespace out there; then we can
just use the check for ->mnt_ns != NULL in the fast path of
mntput_no_expire()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
READ is 0, so the result of the bit-and operation is 0. Rewrite with == as
done elsewhere in the same file.
This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
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>
This patch makes affs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an 'sb' VFS superblock back-reference to the 'struct affs_sb_info' data
structure - we will need to find the VFS superblock from a 'struct
affs_sb_info' object in the next patch, so this change is jut a preparation.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The VFS's 'lock_super()' and 'unlock_super()' calls are deprecated and unwanted
and just wait for a brave knight who'd kill them. This patch makes AFFS stop
using them and use the buffer-head's own lock instead.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
AFFS wants to serialize the superblock (the root block in AFFS terms) updates
and uses 'lock_super()/unlock_super()' for these purposes. This patch pushes the
locking down to the 'affs_commit_super()' from the callers.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to write out the superblock from '->remount_fs()' because
VFS has already called '->sync_fs()' by this time and the superblock has
already been written out. Thus, remove the 'affs_write_super()'
infocation from 'affs_remount()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to write out the superblock from '->put_super()' because VFS has
already called '->sync_fs()' by this time and the superblock has already been
written out. Thus, remove the 'affs_commit_super()' infocation from
'affs_put_super()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
AFFS stores values '1' and '2' in 'bm_flags', and I fail to see any logic when
it prefers one or another. AFFS writes '1' only from '->put_super()', while
'->sync_fs()' and '->write_super()' store value '2'. So on the first glance,
it looks like we want to have '1' if we unmount. However, this does not really
happen in these cases:
1. superblock is written via 'write_super()' then we unmount;
2. we re-mount R/O, then unmount.
which are quite typical.
I could not find good documentation describing this field, except of one random
piece of documentation in the internet which says that -1 means that the root
block is valid, which is not consistent with what we have in the Linux AFFS
driver.
Jan Kara commented on this: "I have some vague recollection that on Amiga
boolean was usually encoded as: 0 == false, ~0 == -1 == true. But it has been
ages..."
Thus, my conclusion is that value of '1' is as good as value of '2' and we can
just always use '2'. An Jan Kara suggested to go further: "generally bm_flags
handling looks strange. If they are 0, we mount fs read only and thus cannot
change them. If they are != 0, we write 2 there. So IMHO if you just removed
bm_flags setting, nothing will really happen."
So this patch removes the bm_flags setting completely. This makes the "clean"
argument of the 'affs_commit_super()' function unneeded, so it is also removed.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull the leap second fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"It's a rather large series, but well discussed, refined and reviewed.
It got a massive testing by John, Prarit and tip.
In theory we could split it into two parts. The first two patches
f55a6faa3843: hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()
4873fa070ae8: timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue
are merely preventing the stuff loops forever issues, which people
have observed.
But there is no point in delaying the other 4 commits which achieve
full correctness into 3.6 as they are tagged for stable anyway. And I
rather prefer to have the full fixes merged in bulk than a "prevent
the observable wreckage and deal with the hidden fallout later"
approach."
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hrtimer: Update hrtimer base offsets each hrtimer_interrupt
timekeeping: Provide hrtimer update function
hrtimers: Move lock held region in hrtimer_interrupt()
timekeeping: Maintain ktime_t based offsets for hrtimers
timekeeping: Fix leapsecond triggered load spike issue
hrtimer: Provide clock_was_set_delayed()
If a seccomp filter program is installed, older static binaries and
distributions with older libc implementations (glibc 2.13 and earlier)
that rely on vsyscall use will be terminated regardless of the filter
program policy when executing time, gettimeofday, or getcpu. This is
only the case when vsyscall emulation is in use (vsyscall=emulate is the
default).
This patch emulates system call entry inside a vsyscall=emulate by
populating regs->ax and regs->orig_ax with the system call number prior
to calling into seccomp such that all seccomp-dependencies function
normally. Additionally, system call return behavior is emulated in line
with other vsyscall entrypoints for the trace/trap cases.
[ v2: fixed ip and sp on SECCOMP_RET_TRAP/TRACE (thanks to luto@mit.edu) ]
Reported-and-tested-by: Owen Kibel <qmewlo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Please pull one hwmon subsystem fix from Jean Delvare.
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
hwmon: (it87) Preserve configuration register bits on init
This can be trivially triggered from userspace by passing in something unexpected.
kernel BUG at fs/locks.c:1468!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
RIP: 0010:generic_setlease+0xc2/0x100
Call Trace:
__vfs_setlease+0x35/0x40
fcntl_setlease+0x76/0x150
sys_fcntl+0x1c6/0x810
system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.2+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull input layer fixes from Dmitry Torokhov:
"The changes are limited to adding new VID/PID combinations to drivers
to enable support for new versions of hardware, most notably hardware
found in new MacBook Pro Retina boxes."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: xpad - add Andamiro Pump It Up pad
Input: xpad - add signature for Razer Onza Tournament Edition
Input: xpad - handle all variations of Mad Catz Beat Pad
Input: bcm5974 - Add support for 2012 MacBook Pro Retina
HID: add support for 2012 MacBook Pro Retina
Pull media fixes from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- Some regression fixes at the audio part for devices with
cx23885/cx25840
- A DMA corruption fix at cx231xx
- two fixes at the winbond IR driver
- Several fixes for the EXYNOS media driver (s5p)
- two fixes at the OMAP3 preview driver
- one fix at the dvb core failure path
- an include missing (slab.h) at smiapp-core causing compilation
breakage
- em28xx was not loading the IR driver driver anymore.
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (31 commits)
[media] Revert "[media] V4L: JPEG class documentation corrections"
[media] s5p-fimc: Add missing FIMC-LITE file operations locking
[media] omap3isp: preview: Fix contrast and brightness handling
[media] omap3isp: preview: Fix output size computation depending on input format
[media] winbond-cir: Initialise timeout, driver_type and allowed_protos
[media] winbond-cir: Fix txandrx module info
[media] cx23885: Silence unknown command warnings
[media] cx23885: add support for HVR-1255 analog (cx23888 variant)
[media] cx23885: make analog support work for HVR_1250 (cx23885 variant)
[media] cx25840: fix vsrc/hsrc usage on cx23888 designs
[media] cx25840: fix regression in HVR-1800 analog audio
[media] cx25840: fix regression in analog support hue/saturation controls
[media] cx25840: fix regression in HVR-1800 analog support
[media] s5p-mfc: Fixed setup of custom controls in decoder and encoder
[media] cx231xx: don't DMA to random addresses
[media] em28xx: fix em28xx-rc load
[media] dvb-core: Release semaphore on error path dvb_register_device()
[media] s5p-fimc: Stop media entity pipeline if fimc_pipeline_validate fails
[media] s5p-fimc: Fix compiler warning in fimc-lite.c
[media] s5p-fimc: media_entity_pipeline_start() may fail
...
- Revert a patch that made failing to select power class fatal;
it turns out that it fails non-fatally on Tegra boards.
Regression against 3.5-rc1.
- Add the IRQF_ONESHOT flag to the cd-gpio driver, which turned
into a regression in 3.5-rc1 when IRQF_ONESHOT became required
for threaded IRQs with no handler.
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Merge tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.5-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc
Pull MMC fixes from Chris Ball:
- Revert a patch that made failing to select power class fatal;
it turns out that it fails non-fatally on Tegra boards.
Regression against 3.5-rc1.
- Add the IRQF_ONESHOT flag to the cd-gpio driver, which turned
into a regression in 3.5-rc1 when IRQF_ONESHOT became required
for threaded IRQs with no handler.
* tag 'mmc-fixes-for-3.5-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc:
mmc: cd-gpio: pass IRQF_ONESHOT to request_threaded_irq()
mmc: core: Revert "skip card initialization if power class selection fails"
- fix 'sparse warning fix' regression which totally breaks MXC NAND
- fix GPMI NAND regression when used with UBI
- update/correct sysfs documentation for new 'bitflip_threshold' field
- fix nandsim build failure
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20120712' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd
Pull late MTD fixes from David Woodhouse:
- fix 'sparse warning fix' regression which totally breaks MXC NAND
- fix GPMI NAND regression when used with UBI
- update/correct sysfs documentation for new 'bitflip_threshold' field
- fix nandsim build failure
* tag 'for-linus-20120712' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
mtd: nandsim: don't open code a do_div helper
mtd: ABI documentation: clarification of bitflip_threshold
mtd: gpmi-nand: fix read page when reading to vmalloced area
mtd: mxc_nand: use 32bit copy functions
- 3 Palmas fixes, 1 of them being a build error fix.
- 2 mc13xx fixes. 1 for fixing an SPI regmap configuration and another one for
working around an i.Mx hardware bug.
- 1 omap-usb regression fix.
- 1 twl6040 build breakage fix.
- 1 file deletion (ab5500-core.h) that was overlooked during the last merge
window.
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Merge tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6
Pull MFD Fixes from Samuel Ortiz:
- Three Palmas fixes, One of them being a build error fix.
- Two mc13xx fixes. One for fixing an SPI regmap configuration and
another one for working around an i.Mx hardware bug.
- One omap-usb regression fix.
- One twl6040 build breakage fix.
- One file deletion (ab5500-core.h) that was overlooked during the last
merge window.
* tag 'mfd-for-linus-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6:
mfd: Add missing hunk to change palmas irq to clear on read
mfd: Fix palmas regulator pdata missing
mfd: USB: Fix the omap-usb EHCI ULPI PHY reset fix issues.
mfd: Update twl6040 Kconfig to avoid build breakage
mfd: Delete ab5500-core.h
mfd: mc13xxx workaround SPI hardware bug on i.Mx
mfd: Fix mc13xxx SPI regmap
mfd: Add terminating entry for i2c_device_id palmas table
Pull a couple of KVM fixes from Avi Kivity:
"One is an adjustment for an irq layer change that affected device
assignment, the other a one-liner ppc fix."
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
powerpc/kvm: Fix "PR" KVM implementation of H_CEDE
KVM: Fix device assignment threaded irq handler
Commit 080399aaaf ("block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as
mapped") exposed a bug in __getblk_slow that causes mount to hang as it
loops infinitely waiting for a buffer that lies beyond the end of the
disk to become uptodate.
The problem was initially reported by Torsten Hilbrich here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/54
and also reported independently here:
http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4511
and then Richard W.M. Jones and Marcos Mello noted a few separate
bugzillas also associated with the same issue. This patch has been
confirmed to fix:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835019
The main problem is here, in __getblk_slow:
for (;;) {
struct buffer_head * bh;
int ret;
bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;
ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
if (ret < 0)
return NULL;
if (ret == 0)
free_more_memory();
}
__find_get_block does not find the block, since it will not be marked as
mapped, and so grow_buffers is called to fill in the buffers for the
associated page. I believe the for (;;) loop is there primarily to
retry in the case of memory pressure keeping grow_buffers from
succeeding. However, we also continue to loop for other cases, like the
block lying beond the end of the disk. So, the fix I came up with is to
only loop when grow_buffers fails due to memory allocation issues
(return value of 0).
The attached patch was tested by myself, Torsten, and Rich, and was
found to resolve the problem in call cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.0+
[ Jens is on vacation, taking this directly - Linus ]
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Stable Notes: this patch requires backport to 3.0, 3.2 and 3.3.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>