linux-stable.git/Documentation/filesystems/porting, branch linux-4.1.y

fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode

2016-12-23T13:56:35+00:00

[ Upstream commit 31051c85b5e2aaaf6315f74c72a732673632a905 ]

inode_change_ok() will be resposible for clearing capabilities and IMA
extended attributes and as such will need dentry. Give it as an argument
to inode_change_ok() instead of an inode. Also rename inode_change_ok()
to setattr_prepare() to better relect that it does also some
modifications in addition to checks.

References: CVE-2015-1350
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

->aio_read and ->aio_write removed

2015-04-12T02:29:43+00:00

no remaining users

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make new_sync_{read,write}() static

2015-04-12T02:29:40+00:00

All places outside of core VFS that checked ->read and ->write for being NULL or
called the methods directly are gone now, so NULL {read,write} with non-NULL
{read,write}_iter will do the right thing in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kill f_dentry macro

2014-11-19T18:02:11+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch d_materialise_unique() users to d_splice_alias()

2014-11-19T18:01:20+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache

2014-04-03T23:21:01+00:00

Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Greg Thelen 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Luigi Semenzato 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Metin Doslu 
Cc: Michel Lespinasse 
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Ryan Mallon 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

iget/iget5: don't bother with ->i_lock until we find a match

2013-11-09T05:16:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: remove vfs_follow_link

2013-09-10T21:06:45+00:00

For a long time no filesystem has been using vfs_follow_link, and as seen
by recent filesystem submissions any new use is accidental as well.

Remove vfs_follow_link, document the replacement in
Documentation/filesystems/porting and also rename __vfs_follow_link
to match its only caller better.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[readdir] ->readdir() is gone

2013-06-29T08:57:04+00:00

everything's converted to ->iterate()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[readdir] introduce iterate_dir() and dir_context

2013-06-29T08:46:46+00:00

iterate_dir(): new helper, replacing vfs_readdir().

struct dir_context: contains the readdir callback (and will get more stuff
in it), embedded into whatever data that callback wants to deal with;
eventually, we'll be passing it to ->readdir() replacement instead of
(data,filldir) pair.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro