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The elf_core_dump() code does its work with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) in force,
so vma_dump_size() needs to switch back with set_fs(USER_DS) to safely
use get_user() for a normal user-space address.
Checking for VM_READ optimizes out the case where get_user() would fail
anyway. The vm_file check here was already superfluous given the control
flow earlier in the function, so that is a cleanup/optimization unrelated
to other changes but an obvious and trivial one.
Reported-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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... and yes, gcc is insane enough to eat that without complaint.
We probably want sparse to scream on those...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
Revert "configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()"
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lseek() further than length of the file will leave stale ->index
(second-to-last during iteration). Next seq_read() will not notice
that ->f_pos is big enough to return 0, but will print last item
as if ->f_pos is pointing to it.
Introduced in commit cb510b8172602a66467f3551b4be1911f5a7c8c2
aka "seq_file: more atomicity in traverse()".
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In 2.6.25 some /proc files were converted to use the seq_file
infrastructure. But seq_files do not correctly support pread(), which
broke some usersapce applications.
To handle pread correctly we can't assume that f_pos is where we left it
in seq_read. So move traverse() so that we can eventually use it in
seq_read and do thus some day support pread().
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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configfs_depend_item()"
This reverts commit 0e0333429a6280e6eb3c98845e4eed90d5f8078a.
I committed this by accident - Joel and Louis are working with the lockdep
maintainer to provide a better solution than just turning lockdep off.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: <Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
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* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBIFS: remove fast unmounting
UBIFS: return sensible error codes
UBIFS: remount ro fixes
UBIFS: spelling fix 'date' -> 'data'
UBIFS: sync wbufs after syncing inodes and pages
UBIFS: fix LPT out-of-space bug (again)
UBIFS: fix no_chk_data_crc
UBIFS: fix assertions
UBIFS: ensure orphan area head is initialized
UBIFS: always clean up GC LEB space
UBIFS: add re-mount debugging checks
UBIFS: fix LEB list freeing
UBIFS: simplify locking
UBIFS: document dark_wm and dead_wm better
UBIFS: do not treat all data as short term
UBIFS: constify operations
UBIFS: do not commit twice
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
ocfs2: add quota call to ocfs2_remove_btree_range()
ocfs2: Wakeup the downconvert thread after a successful cancel convert
ocfs2: Access the xattr bucket only before modifying it.
configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()
ocfs2: Fix possible deadlock in ocfs2_write_dquot()
ocfs2: Push out dropping of dentry lock to ocfs2_wq
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Till VFS can correctly support read-only remount without racing,
use WARN_ON instead of BUG_ON on detecting transaction in flight
after quiescing filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Before trying to obtain, read or write a buffer,
check that the buffer length is actually valid. If
it is not valid, then something read in the recovery
process has been corrupted and we should abort
recovery.
Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-linus
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We weren't reclaiming the clusters which get free'd from this function,
so any user punching holes in a file would still have those bytes accounted
against him/her. Add the call to vfs_dq_free_space_nodirty() to fix this.
Interestingly enough, the journal credits calculation already took this into
account.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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When two nodes holding PR locks on a resource concurrently attempt to
upconvert the locks to EX, the master sends a BAST to one of the nodes. This
message tells that node to first cancel convert the upconvert request,
followed by downconvert to a NL. Only when this lock is downconverted to NL,
can the master upconvert the first node's lock to EX.
While the fs was doing the cancel convert, it was forgetting to wake up the
dc thread after a successful cancel, leading to a deadlock.
Reported-and-Tested-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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In ocfs2_xattr_value_truncate, we may call b-tree codes which will
extend the journal transaction. It has a potential problem that it
may let the already-accessed-but-not-dirtied buffers gone. So we'd
better access the bucket after we call ocfs2_xattr_value_truncate.
And as for the root buffer for the xattr value, b-tree code will
acess and dirty it, so we don't need to worry about it.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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When attaching default groups (subdirs) of a new group (in mkdir() or
in configfs_register()), configfs recursively takes inode's mutexes
along the path from the parent of the new group to the default
subdirs. This is needed to ensure that the VFS will not race with
operations on these sub-dirs. This is safe for the following reasons:
- the VFS allows one to lock first an inode and second one of its
children (The lock subclasses for this pattern are respectively
I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD);
- from this rule any inode path can be recursively locked in
descending order as long as it stays under a single mountpoint and
does not follow symlinks.
Unfortunately lockdep does not know (yet?) how to handle such
recursion.
I've tried to use Peter Zijlstra's lock_set_subclass() helper to
upgrade i_mutexes from I_MUTEX_CHILD to I_MUTEX_PARENT when we know
that we might recursively lock some of their descendant, but this
usage does not seem to fit the purpose of lock_set_subclass() because
it leads to several i_mutex locked with subclass I_MUTEX_PARENT by
the same task.
>From inside configfs it is not possible to serialize those recursive
locking with a top-level one, because mkdir() and rmdir() are already
called with inodes locked by the VFS. So using some
mutex_lock_nest_lock() is not an option.
I am proposing two solutions:
1) one that wraps recursive mutex_lock()s with
lockdep_off()/lockdep_on().
2) (as suggested earlier by Peter Zijlstra) one that puts the
i_mutexes recursively locked in different classes based on their
depth from the top-level config_group created. This
induces an arbitrary limit (MAX_LOCK_DEPTH - 2 == 46) on the
nesting of configfs default groups whenever lockdep is activated
but this limit looks reasonably high. Unfortunately, this alos
isolates VFS operations on configfs default groups from the others
and thus lowers the chances to detect locking issues.
This patch implements solution 1).
Solution 2) looks better from lockdep's point of view, but fails with
configfs_depend_item(). This needs to rework the locking
scheme of configfs_depend_item() by removing the variable lock recursion
depth, and I think that it's doable thanks to the configfs_dirent_lock.
For now, let's stick to solution 1).
Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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It could happen that some limit has been set via quotactl() and in parallel
->mark_dirty() is called from another thread doing e.g. dquot_alloc_space(). In
such case ocfs2_write_dquot() must not try to sync the dquot because that needs
global quota lock but that ranks above transaction start.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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Dropping of last reference to dentry lock is a complicated operation involving
dropping of reference to inode. This can get complicated and quota code in
particular needs to obtain some quota locks which leads to potential deadlock.
Thus we defer dropping of inode reference to ocfs2_wq.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Remove bogus BUG() check in ext4_bmap()
ext4: Fix building with EXT4FS_DEBUG
ext4: Initialize the new group descriptor when resizing the filesystem
ext4: Fix ext4_free_blocks() w/o a journal when files have indirect blocks
jbd2: On a __journal_expect() assertion failure printk "JBD2", not "EXT3-fs"
ext3: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dir
ext4: Add sanity check to make_indexed_dir
ext4: only use i_size_high for regular files
ext4: fix wrong use of do_div
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cfq-iosched: Allow RT requests to pre-empt ongoing BE timeslice
block: add sysfs file for controlling io stats accounting
Mark mandatory elevator functions in the biodoc.txt
include/linux: Add bsg.h to the Kernel exported headers
block: silently error an unsupported barrier bio
block: Fix documentation for blkdev_issue_flush()
block: add bio_rw_flagged() for testing bio->bi_rw
block: seperate bio/request unplug and sync bits
block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs
Fix small typo in bio.h's documentation
block: get rid of the manual directory counting in blktrace
block: Allow empty integrity profile
block: Remove obsolete BUG_ON
block: Don't verify integrity metadata on read error
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (29 commits)
tulip: fix 21142 with 10Mbps without negotiation
drivers/net/skfp: if !capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN): inverted logic
gianfar: Fix Wake-on-LAN support
smsc911x: timeout reaches -1
smsc9420: fix interrupt signalling test failures
ucc_geth: Change uec phy id to the same format as gianfar's
wimax: fix build issue when debugfs is disabled
netxen: fix memory leak in drivers/net/netxen_nic_init.c
tun: Add some missing TUN compat ioctl translations.
ipv4: fix infinite retry loop in IP-Config
net: update documentation ip aliases
net: Fix OOPS in skb_seq_read().
net: Fix frag_list handling in skb_seq_read
netxen: revert jumbo ringsize
ath5k: fix locking in ath5k_config
cfg80211: print correct intersected regulatory domain
cfg80211: Fix sanity check on 5 GHz when processing country IE
iwlwifi: fix kernel oops when ucode DMA memory allocation failure
rtl8187: Fix error in setting OFDM power settings for RTL8187L
mac80211: remove Michael Wu as maintainer
...
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Now that bio_vecs are no longer cleared in bvec_alloc_bs() the following
BUG_ON must go.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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If we get an I/O error on a read request there is no point in doing a
verify pass on the integrity buffer. Adjust the completion path
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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The code to support journal-less ext4 operation added a BUG to
ext4_bmap() which fired if there was no journal and the
EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit was set in the i_state field. This caused
running the filefrag program (which uses the FIMBAP ioctl) to trigger
a BUG().
The EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit is only used for ext4_bmap(), and it's
harmless for the bit to be set. We could add a check in
__ext4_journalled_writepage() and ext4_journalled_write_end() to only
set the EXT4_STATE_JDATA bit if the journal is present, but that adds
an extra test and jump instruction. It's easier to simply remove the
BUG check.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12568
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: make sure we allocate enough storage for socket address
[CIFS] Make socket retry timeouts consistent between blocking and nonblocking cases
[CIFS] some cleanup to dir.c prior to addition of posix_open
[CIFS] revalidate parent inode when rmdir done within that directory
[CIFS] Rename md5 functions to avoid collision with new rt modules
cifs: turn smb_send into a wrapper around smb_sendv
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Linus suggested to put limits where the money is, and max_user_watches
already does that w/out the need of max_user_instances. That has the
advantage to mitigate the potential DoS while allowing pretty generous
default behavior.
Allowing top 4% of low memory (per user) to be allocated in epoll watches,
we have:
LOMEM MAX_WATCHES (per user)
512MB ~178000
1GB ~356000
2GB ~712000
A box with 512MB of lomem, will meet some challenge in hitting 180K
watches, socket buffers math teaches us. No more max_user_instances
limits then.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Based upon a report from Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>:
Just saw in dmesg:
ioctl32(kvm:4408): Unknown cmd fd(9) cmd(800454cf){t:'T';sz:4} arg(ffc668e4) on /dev/net/tun
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This UBIFS feature has never worked properly, and it was a mistake
to add it because we simply have no use-cases. So, lets still accept
the fast_unmount mount option, but ignore it. This does not change
much, because UBIFS commit in sync_fs anyway, and sync_fs is called
while unmounting.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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When mounting/re-mounting, UBIFS returns EINVAL even if the ENOSPC
or EROFS codes are are much better, just because we have not found
references to ENOSPC/EROFS in mount (2) man pages. This patch
changes this behaviour and makes UBIFS return real error code,
because:
1. It is just less confusing and more logical
2. mount is not described in SuSv3, so it seems to be not really
well-standartized
3. we do not cover all cases, and any random undocumented in man
pages error code may be returned anyway
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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- preserve the idx_gc list - it will be needed in the same
state, should UBIFS be remounted rw again
- prevent remounting ro if we have switched to read only
mode (due to a fatal error)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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All writes go through wbufs so they must be sync'd
after syncing inodes and pages.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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The sockaddr declared on the stack in cifs_get_tcp_session is too small
for IPv6 addresses. Change it from "struct sockaddr" to "struct
sockaddr_storage" to prevent stack corruption when IPv6 is used.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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nonblocking cases
We have used approximately 15 second timeouts on nonblocking sends in the past, and
also 15 second SMB timeout (waiting for server responses, for most request types).
Now that we can do blocking tcp sends,
make blocking send timeout approximately the same (15 seconds).
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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When a search is pending of a parent directory, and a child directory
within it is removed, we need to reset the parent directory's time
so that we don't reuse the (now stale) search results.
Thanks to Gunter Kukkukk for reporting this:
> got the following failure notification on irc #samba:
>
> A user was updating from subversion 1.4 to 1.5, where the
> repository is located on a samba share (independent of
> unix extensions = Yes or No).
> svn 1.4 did work, 1.5 does not.
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> The user did a lot of stracing of subversion - and wrote a
> testapplet to simulate the failing behaviour.
> I've converted the C++ source to C and added some error cases.
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> When using "./testdir" on a local file system, "result2"
> is always (nil) as expected - cifs vfs behaves different here!
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> ./testdir /mnt/cifs/mounted/share
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> returns a (failing) valid pointer.
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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When rt modules were added they (each) included their own md5
with names which collided with the existing names of cifs's md5 functions.
Renaming cifs's md5 modules so we don't collide with them.
> Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> When CIFS is built-in (=y) and staging/rt28[67]0 =y, there are multiple
> definitions of:
>
> build-r8250.out:(.text+0x1d8ad0): multiple definition of `MD5Init'
> build-r8250.out:(.text+0x1dbb30): multiple definition of `MD5Update'
> build-r8250.out:(.text+0x1db9b0): multiple definition of `MD5Final'
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> all of which need to have more unique identifiers for their global
> symbols (e.g., rt28_md5_init, cifs_md5_init, foo, blah, bar).
>
CC: Greg K-H <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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cifs: turn smb_send into a wrapper around smb_sendv
Rename smb_send2 to smb_sendv to make it consistent with kernel naming
conventions for functions that take a vector.
There's no need to have 2 functions to handle sending SMB calls. Turn
smb_send into a wrapper around smb_sendv. This also allows us to
properly mark the socket as needing to be reconnected when there's a
partial send from smb_send.
Also, in practice we always use the address and noblocksnd flag
that's attached to the TCP_Server_Info. There's no need to pass
them in as separate args to smb_sendv.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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The function to traverse and dirty the LPT was still not
dirtying all nodes, with the result that the LPT could
run out of space.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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nfsd4_lockt does a search for a lockstateowner when building the lock
struct to test. If one is found, it'll set fl_owner to it. Regardless of
whether that happens, it'll also set fl_lmops. Given that this lock is
basically a "lightweight" lock that's just used for checking conflicts,
setting fl_lmops is probably not appropriate for it.
This behavior exposed a bug in DLM's GETLK implementation where it
wasn't clearing out the fields in the file_lock before filling in
conflicting lock info. While we were able to fix this in DLM, it
still seems pointless and dangerous to set the fl_lmops this way
when we may have a NULL lockstateowner.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@pig.fieldses.org>
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Since override_creds() took its own reference on new, we need to release
our own reference.
(Note the put_cred on the return value puts the *old* value of
current->creds, not the new passed-in value).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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We're forgetting to check the return value from groups_alloc().
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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fixes kernel.org bugzilla 12538, xfs_fsr fails on 2.6.29-rc kernels
Regression caused by 743bb4650da9e2595d6cedd01c680b5b9398c74a
This was an embarrasing mistake, reallocating the sxp pointer passed
in from the main ioctl switch.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net
Reported-by: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Tested-by: Paul Martin <pm@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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When data CRC checking is disabled, UBIFS returns incorrect return
code from the 'try_read_node()' function (0 instead of 1, which means
CRC error), which make the caller re-read the data node again, but using
a different code patch, so the second read is fine. Thus, we read the
same node twice. And the result of this is that UBIFS is slower
with no_chk_data_crc option than it is with chk_data_crc option.
This patches fixes the problem.
Reported-by: Reuben Dowle <Reuben.Dowle@navico.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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When bg_free_blocks_count was renamed to bg_free_blocks_count_lo in
560671a0, its uses under EXT4FS_DEBUG were not changed to the helper
ext4_free_blks_count.
Another commit, 498e5f24, also did not change everything needed under
EXT4FS_DEBUG, thus making it spill some warnings related to printing
format.
This commit fixes both issues and makes ext4 build again when
EXT4FS_DEBUG is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Make sure all of the fields of the group descriptor are properly
initialized. Previously, we allowed bg_flags field to be contain
random garbage, which could trigger non-deterministic behavior,
including a kernel OOPS.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12433
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/dlm:
dlm: initialize file_lock struct in GETLK before copying conflicting lock
dlm: fix plock notify callback to lockd
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-quota-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-quota-2.6:
ocfs2: Remove ocfs2_dquot_initialize() and ocfs2_dquot_drop()
quota: Improve locking
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag
debugfs: introduce stub for debugfs_create_size_t() when DEBUG_FS=n
sysfs: fix problems with binary files
PNP: fix broken pnp lowercasing for acpi module aliases
driver core: Convert '/' to '!' in dev_set_name()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/misc
* 'Kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/misc: (36 commits)
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If userspace supplies an invalid pointer to a read() of an inotify
instance, the inotify device's event list mutex is unlocked twice.
This causes an unbalance which effectively leaves the data structure
unprotected, and we can trigger oopses by accessing the inotify
instance from different tasks concurrently.
The best fix (contributed largely by Linus) is a total rewrite
of the function in question:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The thing to notice is that:
>
> - locking is done in just one place, and there is no question about it
> not having an unlock.
>
> - that whole double-while(1)-loop thing is gone.
>
> - use multiple functions to make nesting and error handling sane
>
> - do error testing after doing the things you always need to do, ie do
> this:
>
> mutex_lock(..)
> ret = function_call();
> mutex_unlock(..)
>
> .. test ret here ..
>
> instead of doing conditional exits with unlocking or freeing.
>
> So if the code is written in this way, it may still be buggy, but at least
> it's not buggy because of subtle "forgot to unlock" or "forgot to free"
> issues.
>
> This _always_ unlocks if it locked, and it always frees if it got a
> non-error kevent.
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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