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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/configfs, branch v4.7</title>
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<title>configfs: Remove ppos increment in configfs_write_bin_file</title>
<updated>2016-06-30T09:28:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marek Vasut</name>
<email>marex@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-18T14:16:51+00:00</published>
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The simple_write_to_buffer() already increments the @ppos on success,
see fs/libfs.c simple_write_to_buffer() comment:

"
On success, the number of bytes written is returned and the offset @ppos
advanced by this number, or negative value is returned on error.
"

If the configfs_write_bin_file() is invoked with @count smaller than the
total length of the written binary file, it will be invoked multiple times.
Since configfs_write_bin_file() increments @ppos on success, after calling
simple_write_to_buffer(), the @ppos is incremented twice.

Subsequent invocation of configfs_write_bin_file() will result in the next
piece of data being written to the offset twice as long as the length of
the previous write, thus creating buffer with "holes" in it.

The simple testcase using DTO follows:
  $ mkdir /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/1
  $ dd bs=1 if=foo.dtbo of=/sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/1/dtbo
Without this patch, the testcase will result in twice as big buffer in the
kernel, which is then passed to the cfs_overlay_item_dtbo_write() .

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou &lt;pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com&gt;
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The simple_write_to_buffer() already increments the @ppos on success,
see fs/libfs.c simple_write_to_buffer() comment:

"
On success, the number of bytes written is returned and the offset @ppos
advanced by this number, or negative value is returned on error.
"

If the configfs_write_bin_file() is invoked with @count smaller than the
total length of the written binary file, it will be invoked multiple times.
Since configfs_write_bin_file() increments @ppos on success, after calling
simple_write_to_buffer(), the @ppos is incremented twice.

Subsequent invocation of configfs_write_bin_file() will result in the next
piece of data being written to the offset twice as long as the length of
the previous write, thus creating buffer with "holes" in it.

The simple testcase using DTO follows:
  $ mkdir /sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/1
  $ dd bs=1 if=foo.dtbo of=/sys/kernel/config/device-tree/overlays/1/dtbo
Without this patch, the testcase will result in twice as big buffer in the
kernel, which is then passed to the cfs_overlay_item_dtbo_write() .

Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut &lt;marex@denx.de&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Pantelis Antoniou &lt;pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>configfs_readdir(): make safe under shared lock</title>
<updated>2016-05-09T15:41:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-20T23:50:05+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parallel lookups: actual switch to rwsem</title>
<updated>2016-05-02T23:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-15T19:08:36+00:00</published>
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ta-da!

The main issue is the lack of down_write_killable(), so the places
like readdir.c switched to plain inode_lock(); once killable
variants of rwsem primitives appear, that'll be dealt with.

lockdep side also might need more work

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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ta-da!

The main issue is the lack of down_write_killable(), so the places
like readdir.c switched to plain inode_lock(); once killable
variants of rwsem primitives appear, that'll be dealt with.

lockdep side also might need more work

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>configfs_detach_prep(): make sure that wait_mutex won't go away</title>
<updated>2016-05-02T23:47:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-12T04:37:59+00:00</published>
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grab a reference to dentry we'd got the sucker from, and return
that dentry via *wait, rather than just returning the address of
-&gt;i_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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grab a reference to dentry we'd got the sucker from, and return
that dentry via *wait, rather than just returning the address of
-&gt;i_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros</title>
<updated>2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:29:47+00:00</published>
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-03-20T01:52:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-20T01:52:29+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:

 - Preparations of parallel lookups (the remaining main obstacle is the
   need to move security_d_instantiate(); once that becomes safe, the
   rest will be a matter of rather short series local to fs/*.c

 - preadv2/pwritev2 series from Christoph

 - assorted fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (32 commits)
  splice: handle zero nr_pages in splice_to_pipe()
  vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method
  dcache.c: new helper: __d_add()
  don't bother with __d_instantiate(dentry, NULL)
  untangle fsnotify_d_instantiate() a bit
  uninline d_add()
  replace d_add_unique() with saner primitive
  quota: use lookup_one_len_unlocked()
  cifs_get_root(): use lookup_one_len_unlocked()
  nfs_lookup: don't bother with d_instantiate(dentry, NULL)
  kill dentry_unhash()
  ceph_fill_trace(): don't bother with d_instantiate(dn, NULL)
  autofs4: don't bother with d_instantiate(dentry, NULL) in -&gt;lookup()
  configfs: move d_rehash() into configfs_create() for regular files
  ceph: don't bother with d_rehash() in splice_dentry()
  namei: teach lookup_slow() to skip revalidate
  namei: massage lookup_slow() to be usable by lookup_one_len_unlocked()
  lookup_one_len_unlocked(): use lookup_dcache()
  namei: simplify invalidation logics in lookup_dcache()
  namei: change calling conventions for lookup_{fast,slow} and follow_managed()
  ...
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:

 - Preparations of parallel lookups (the remaining main obstacle is the
   need to move security_d_instantiate(); once that becomes safe, the
   rest will be a matter of rather short series local to fs/*.c

 - preadv2/pwritev2 series from Christoph

 - assorted fixes

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (32 commits)
  splice: handle zero nr_pages in splice_to_pipe()
  vfs: show_vfsstat: do not ignore errors from show_devname method
  dcache.c: new helper: __d_add()
  don't bother with __d_instantiate(dentry, NULL)
  untangle fsnotify_d_instantiate() a bit
  uninline d_add()
  replace d_add_unique() with saner primitive
  quota: use lookup_one_len_unlocked()
  cifs_get_root(): use lookup_one_len_unlocked()
  nfs_lookup: don't bother with d_instantiate(dentry, NULL)
  kill dentry_unhash()
  ceph_fill_trace(): don't bother with d_instantiate(dn, NULL)
  autofs4: don't bother with d_instantiate(dentry, NULL) in -&gt;lookup()
  configfs: move d_rehash() into configfs_create() for regular files
  ceph: don't bother with d_rehash() in splice_dentry()
  namei: teach lookup_slow() to skip revalidate
  namei: massage lookup_slow() to be usable by lookup_one_len_unlocked()
  lookup_one_len_unlocked(): use lookup_dcache()
  namei: simplify invalidation logics in lookup_dcache()
  namei: change calling conventions for lookup_{fast,slow} and follow_managed()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>configfs: move d_rehash() into configfs_create() for regular files</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T04:15:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-07T19:25:46+00:00</published>
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... and turn it into d_add in there

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... and turn it into d_add in there

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>configfs: switch -&gt;default groups to a linked list</title>
<updated>2016-03-06T15:11:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T10:02:14+00:00</published>
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Replace the current NULL-terminated array of default groups with a linked
list.  This gets rid of lots of nasty code to size and/or dynamically
allocate the array.

While we're at it also provide a conveniant helper to remove the default
groups.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@kernel.org&gt;		[drivers/usb/gadget]
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
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Replace the current NULL-terminated array of default groups with a linked
list.  This gets rid of lots of nasty code to size and/or dynamically
allocate the array.

While we're at it also provide a conveniant helper to remove the default
groups.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@kernel.org&gt;		[drivers/usb/gadget]
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>configfs: Replace CURRENT_TIME by current_fs_time()</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T09:42:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-22T15:17:50+00:00</published>
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CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_fs_time() instead.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_fs_time() instead.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wrappers for -&gt;i_mutex access</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T23:04:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T20:40:57+00:00</published>
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -&gt;i_mutex; over the coming cycle
-&gt;i_mutex will become rwsem, with -&gt;lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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