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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/ext2, branch linux-2.6.27.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>ext2: Fix link count corruption under heavy link+rename load</title>
<updated>2011-04-30T14:53:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Hunt</name>
<email>johunt@akamai.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-24T10:48:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cd84420e6113dfd340ef8ae7f28a12347295748d'/>
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commit e8a80c6f769dd4622d8b211b398452158ee60c0b upstream.

vfs_rename_other() does not lock renamed inode with i_mutex. Thus changing
i_nlink in a non-atomic manner (which happens in ext2_rename()) can corrupt
it as reported and analyzed by Josh.

In fact, there is no good reason to mess with i_nlink of the moved file.
We did it presumably to simulate linking into the new directory and unlinking
from an old one. But the practical effect of this is disputable because fsck
can possibly treat file as being properly linked into both directories without
writing any error which is confusing. So we just stop increment-decrement
games with i_nlink which also fixes the corruption.

CC: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt &lt;johunt@akamai.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit e8a80c6f769dd4622d8b211b398452158ee60c0b upstream.

vfs_rename_other() does not lock renamed inode with i_mutex. Thus changing
i_nlink in a non-atomic manner (which happens in ext2_rename()) can corrupt
it as reported and analyzed by Josh.

In fact, there is no good reason to mess with i_nlink of the moved file.
We did it presumably to simulate linking into the new directory and unlinking
from an old one. But the practical effect of this is disputable because fsck
can possibly treat file as being properly linked into both directories without
writing any error which is confusing. So we just stop increment-decrement
games with i_nlink which also fixes the corruption.

CC: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt &lt;johunt@akamai.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes</title>
<updated>2009-02-20T22:36:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carsten Otte</name>
<email>cotte@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-11T21:04:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2e26581c7426e1dc716d1507422b6367c8b129b8'/>
<id>2e26581c7426e1dc716d1507422b6367c8b129b8</id>
<content type='text'>
commit 0e4a9b59282914fe057ab17027f55123964bc2e2 upstream.

For a reason that I was unable to understand in three months of debugging,
mount ext2 -o remount stopped working properly when remounting from
regular operation to xip, or the other way around.  According to a git
bisect search, the problem was introduced with the VM_MIXEDMAP/PTE_SPECIAL
rework in the vm:

commit 70688e4dd1647f0ceb502bbd5964fa344c5eb411
Author: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Date:   Mon Apr 28 02:13:02 2008 -0700

    xip: support non-struct page backed memory

In the failing scenario, the filesystem is mounted read only via root=
kernel parameter on s390x.  During remount (in rc.sysinit), the inodes of
the bash binary and its libraries are busy and cannot be invalidated (the
bash which is running rc.sysinit resides on subject filesystem).
Afterwards, another bash process (running ifup-eth) recurses into a
subshell, runs dup_mm (via fork).  Some of the mappings in this bash
process were created from inodes that could not be invalidated during
remount.

Both parent and child process crash some time later due to inconsistencies
in their address spaces.  The issue seems to be timing sensitive, various
attempts to recreate it have failed.

This patch refuses to change the xip flag during remount in case some
inodes cannot be invalidated.  This patch keeps users from running into
that issue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 0e4a9b59282914fe057ab17027f55123964bc2e2 upstream.

For a reason that I was unable to understand in three months of debugging,
mount ext2 -o remount stopped working properly when remounting from
regular operation to xip, or the other way around.  According to a git
bisect search, the problem was introduced with the VM_MIXEDMAP/PTE_SPECIAL
rework in the vm:

commit 70688e4dd1647f0ceb502bbd5964fa344c5eb411
Author: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Date:   Mon Apr 28 02:13:02 2008 -0700

    xip: support non-struct page backed memory

In the failing scenario, the filesystem is mounted read only via root=
kernel parameter on s390x.  During remount (in rc.sysinit), the inodes of
the bash binary and its libraries are busy and cannot be invalidated (the
bash which is running rc.sysinit resides on subject filesystem).
Afterwards, another bash process (running ifup-eth) recurses into a
subshell, runs dup_mm (via fork).  Some of the mappings in this bash
process were created from inodes that could not be invalidated during
remount.

Both parent and child process crash some time later due to inconsistencies
in their address spaces.  The issue seems to be timing sensitive, various
attempts to recreate it have failed.

This patch refuses to change the xip flag during remount in case some
inodes cannot be invalidated.  This patch keeps users from running into
that issue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte &lt;cotte@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jared Hulbert &lt;jaredeh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: fix ext2 block reservation early ENOSPC issue</title>
<updated>2008-12-05T18:55:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mingming Cao</name>
<email>cmm@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-16T05:04:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b7beec191a255dfda579e6f2904d33579a6b487b'/>
<id>b7beec191a255dfda579e6f2904d33579a6b487b</id>
<content type='text'>
commit d707d31c972b657dfc2efefd0b99cc4e14223dab upstream.

We could run into ENOSPC error on ext2, even when there is free blocks on
the filesystem.

The problem is triggered in the case the goal block group has 0 free
blocks , and the rest block groups are skipped due to the check of
"free_blocks &lt; windowsz/2".  Current code could fall back to non
reservation allocation to prevent early ENOSPC after examing all the block
groups with reservation on , but this code was bypassed if the reservation
window is turned off already, which is true in this case.

This patch fixed two issues:
1) We don't need to turn off block reservation if the goal block group has
0 free blocks left and continue search for the rest of block groups.

Current code the intention is to turn off the block reservation if the
goal allocation group has a few (some) free blocks left (not enough for
make the desired reservation window),to try to allocation in the goal
block group, to get better locality.  But if the goal blocks have 0 free
blocks, it should leave the block reservation on, and continues search for
the next block groups,rather than turn off block reservation completely.

2) we don't need to check the window size if the block reservation is off.

The problem was originally found and fixed in ext4.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit d707d31c972b657dfc2efefd0b99cc4e14223dab upstream.

We could run into ENOSPC error on ext2, even when there is free blocks on
the filesystem.

The problem is triggered in the case the goal block group has 0 free
blocks , and the rest block groups are skipped due to the check of
"free_blocks &lt; windowsz/2".  Current code could fall back to non
reservation allocation to prevent early ENOSPC after examing all the block
groups with reservation on , but this code was bypassed if the reservation
window is turned off already, which is true in this case.

This patch fixed two issues:
1) We don't need to turn off block reservation if the goal block group has
0 free blocks left and continue search for the rest of block groups.

Current code the intention is to turn off the block reservation if the
goal allocation group has a few (some) free blocks left (not enough for
make the desired reservation window),to try to allocation in the goal
block group, to get better locality.  But if the goal blocks have 0 free
blocks, it should leave the block reservation on, and continues search for
the next block groups,rather than turn off block reservation completely.

2) we don't need to check the window size if the block reservation is off.

The problem was originally found and fixed in ext4.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext[234]: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption (CVE-2008-3528)</title>
<updated>2008-10-25T21:32:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-22T15:11:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=382931f3e09030e7e4d7fcaee2ad3cdc1d396a14'/>
<id>382931f3e09030e7e4d7fcaee2ad3cdc1d396a14</id>
<content type='text'>
This is a trivial backport of the following upstream commits:

- bd39597cbd42a784105a04010100e27267481c67 (ext2)
- cdbf6dba28e8e6268c8420857696309470009fd9 (ext3)
- 9d9f177572d9e4eba0f2e18523b44f90dd51fe74 (ext4)

This addresses CVE-2008-3528

ext[234]: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption

Note: some people thinks this represents a security bug, since it
might make the system go away while it is printing a large number of
console messages, especially if a serial console is involved.  Hence,
it has been assigned CVE-2008-3528, but it requires that the attacker
either has physical access to your machine to insert a USB disk with a
corrupted filesystem image (at which point why not just hit the power
button), or is otherwise able to convince the system administrator to
mount an arbitrary filesystem image (at which point why not just
include a setuid shell or world-writable hard disk device file or some
such).  Me, I think they're just being silly. --tytso

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<pre>
This is a trivial backport of the following upstream commits:

- bd39597cbd42a784105a04010100e27267481c67 (ext2)
- cdbf6dba28e8e6268c8420857696309470009fd9 (ext3)
- 9d9f177572d9e4eba0f2e18523b44f90dd51fe74 (ext4)

This addresses CVE-2008-3528

ext[234]: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption

Note: some people thinks this represents a security bug, since it
might make the system go away while it is printing a large number of
console messages, especially if a serial console is involved.  Hence,
it has been assigned CVE-2008-3528, but it requires that the attacker
either has physical access to your machine to insert a USB disk with a
corrupted filesystem image (at which point why not just hit the power
button), or is otherwise able to convince the system administrator to
mount an arbitrary filesystem image (at which point why not just
include a setuid shell or world-writable hard disk device file or some
such).  Me, I think they're just being silly. --tytso

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize</title>
<updated>2008-07-28T23:30:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hisashi Hifumi</name>
<email>hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-28T22:46:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8ab22b9abb5c55413802e4adc9aa6223324547c3'/>
<id>8ab22b9abb5c55413802e4adc9aa6223324547c3</id>
<content type='text'>
When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a
pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO
is issued and this page will be uptodate.

I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is
room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment.  Because in
this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not
uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate.

So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from
this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate.  This can
reduce read IO and improve system throughput.

I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program.

This benchmark do:

  1: mount and open a test file.

  2: create a 512MB file.

  3: close a file and umount.

  4: mount and again open a test file.

  5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file.  offset is aligned
     by IO size(1024bytes).

  6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file.

The result was:
	2.6.26
        330 sec

	2.6.26-patched
        226 sec

Arch:i386
Filesystem:ext3
Blocksize:1024 bytes
Memory: 1GB

On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block.  So random read/write
mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized
with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment.  This test result
showed this.

The benchmark program is as follows:

#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;time.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mount.h&gt;

#define LEN 1024
#define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */

main(void)
{
	unsigned long i, offset, filesize;
	int fd;
	char buf[LEN];
	time_t t1, t2;

	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	memset(buf, 0, LEN);
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	for (i = 0; i &lt; LOOP; i++)
		write(fd, buf, LEN);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	filesize = LEN * LOOP;
	for (i = 0; i &lt; 300000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) &amp; (~(LEN - 1));
		pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	printf("start test\n");
	time(&amp;t1);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; 100000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) &amp; (~(LEN - 1));
		pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	time(&amp;t2);
	printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
}

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi &lt;hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a
pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO
is issued and this page will be uptodate.

I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is
room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment.  Because in
this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not
uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate.

So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from
this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate.  This can
reduce read IO and improve system throughput.

I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program.

This benchmark do:

  1: mount and open a test file.

  2: create a 512MB file.

  3: close a file and umount.

  4: mount and again open a test file.

  5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file.  offset is aligned
     by IO size(1024bytes).

  6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file.

The result was:
	2.6.26
        330 sec

	2.6.26-patched
        226 sec

Arch:i386
Filesystem:ext3
Blocksize:1024 bytes
Memory: 1GB

On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block.  So random read/write
mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized
with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment.  This test result
showed this.

The benchmark program is as follows:

#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
#include &lt;time.h&gt;
#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
#include &lt;string.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/mount.h&gt;

#define LEN 1024
#define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */

main(void)
{
	unsigned long i, offset, filesize;
	int fd;
	char buf[LEN];
	time_t t1, t2;

	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	memset(buf, 0, LEN);
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	for (i = 0; i &lt; LOOP; i++)
		write(fd, buf, LEN);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot mount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR);
	if (fd &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot open file\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	filesize = LEN * LOOP;
	for (i = 0; i &lt; 300000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) &amp; (~(LEN - 1));
		pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	printf("start test\n");
	time(&amp;t1);
	for (i = 0; i &lt; 100000; i++){
		offset = (random() % filesize) &amp; (~(LEN - 1));
		pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
	}
	time(&amp;t2);
	printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1);
	close(fd);
	if (umount("/root/test1/") &lt; 0) {
		perror("cannot umount\n");
		exit(1);
	}
}

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi &lt;hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] sanitize -&gt;permission() prototype</title>
<updated>2008-07-27T00:53:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-16T01:03:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e6305c43eda10ebfd2ad9e35d6e172ccc7bb3695'/>
<id>e6305c43eda10ebfd2ad9e35d6e172ccc7bb3695</id>
<content type='text'>
* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in -&gt;flags anybody cares
  about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
* kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
* sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
* fix remaining places where -&gt;permission() instances might barf on new
  MAY_... found in mask.

The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in -&gt;flags anybody cares
  about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
* kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
* sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
* fix remaining places where -&gt;permission() instances might barf on new
  MAY_... found in mask.

The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor</title>
<updated>2008-07-26T19:00:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-26T02:45:34+00:00</published>
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Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jon Tollefson &lt;kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

Non-trivial places are:
	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jon Tollefson &lt;kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>quota: move function-macros from quota.h to quotaops.h</title>
<updated>2008-07-25T17:53:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-25T08:46:51+00:00</published>
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Move declarations of some macros, which should be in fact functions to
quotaops.h.  This way they can be later converted to inline functions
because we can now use declarations from quota.h.  Also add necessary
includes of quotaops.h to a few files.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix JFS build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix UFS build]
[vegard.nossum@gmail.com: fix QUOTA=n build]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arjen Pool &lt;arjenpool@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Move declarations of some macros, which should be in fact functions to
quotaops.h.  This way they can be later converted to inline functions
because we can now use declarations from quota.h.  Also add necessary
includes of quotaops.h to a few files.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix JFS build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix UFS build]
[vegard.nossum@gmail.com: fix QUOTA=n build]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arjen Pool &lt;arjenpool@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: remove double definitions of xattr macros</title>
<updated>2008-07-25T17:53:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shen Feng</name>
<email>shen@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-25T08:46:15+00:00</published>
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remove the definitions of macros:
XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX
XATTR_USER_PREFIX
since they are defined in linux/xattr.h

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng &lt;shen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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remove the definitions of macros:
XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX
XATTR_USER_PREFIX
since they are defined in linux/xattr.h

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng &lt;shen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao &lt;cmm@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-28T09:16:04+00:00</published>
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If the block allocator gets blocks out of system zone ext2 calls ext2_error.
But if the file system is mounted with errors=continue retry block allocation.
 We need to mark the system zone blocks as in use to make sure retry don't
pick them again

System zone is the block range mapping block bitmap, inode bitmap and inode
table.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If the block allocator gets blocks out of system zone ext2 calls ext2_error.
But if the file system is mounted with errors=continue retry block allocation.
 We need to mark the system zone blocks as in use to make sure retry don't
pick them again

System zone is the block range mapping block bitmap, inode bitmap and inode
table.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment]
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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