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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/ext4/file.c, branch linux-3.9.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix overflows in SEEK_HOLE, SEEK_DATA implementations</title>
<updated>2013-07-21T00:16:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-31T23:37:56+00:00</published>
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commit e7293fd146846e2a44d29e0477e0860c60fb856b upstream.

ext4_lblk_t is just u32 so multiplying it by blocksize can easily
overflow for files larger than 4 GB. Fix that by properly typing the
block offsets before shifting.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e7293fd146846e2a44d29e0477e0860c60fb856b upstream.

ext4_lblk_t is just u32 so multiplying it by blocksize can easily
overflow for files larger than 4 GB. Fix that by properly typing the
block offsets before shifting.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.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>2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing -&gt;d_name/-&gt;d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has -&gt;d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both -&gt;f_pos and -&gt;f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
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Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing -&gt;d_name/-&gt;d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has -&gt;d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both -&gt;f_pos and -&gt;f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>new helper: file_inode(file)</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-23T22:07:38+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>ext4: rename and improbe ext4_es_find_extent()</title>
<updated>2013-02-18T05:27:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Liu</name>
<email>wenqing.lz@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-18T05:27:26+00:00</published>
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This commit renames ext4_es_find_extent with ext4_es_find_delayed_extent
and improve this function.  First, we split input and output parameter.
Second, this function never return the first block of the next delayed
extent after 'es'.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jan kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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This commit renames ext4_es_find_extent with ext4_es_find_delayed_extent
and improve this function.  First, we split input and output parameter.
Second, this function never return the first block of the next delayed
extent after 'es'.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Jan kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: refine extent status tree</title>
<updated>2013-02-18T05:26:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zheng Liu</name>
<email>wenqing.lz@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-18T05:26:51+00:00</published>
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This commit refines the extent status tree code.

1) A prefix 'es_' is added to to the extent status tree structure
members.

2) Refactored es_remove_extent() so that __es_remove_extent() can be
used by es_insert_extent() to remove the old extent entry(-ies) before
inserting a new one.

3) Rename extent_status_end() to ext4_es_end()

4) ext4_es_can_be_merged() is define to check whether two extents can
be merged or not.

5) Update and clarified comments.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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This commit refines the extent status tree code.

1) A prefix 'es_' is added to to the extent status tree structure
members.

2) Refactored es_remove_extent() so that __es_remove_extent() can be
used by es_insert_extent() to remove the old extent entry(-ies) before
inserting a new one.

3) Rename extent_status_end() to ext4_es_end()

4) ext4_es_can_be_merged() is define to check whether two extents can
be merged or not.

5) Update and clarified comments.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start()</title>
<updated>2013-02-09T02:59:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-09T02:59:22+00:00</published>
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So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for
long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass
context information for logging purposes.

The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is:

   T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats
   echo "interval &gt; 5" &gt; $EVENT/filter
   echo 1 &gt; $EVENT/enable

   ./run-my-fs-benchmark

   cat $T/trace &gt; /tmp/problem-handles

This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms.  Having
longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong
time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an
fsync() or an O_SYNC operation.  Here is an example line from the
trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over
1.2 seconds:

postmark-2917  [000] ....   196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 
   tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
   dirtied_blocks 0

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for
long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass
context information for logging purposes.

The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is:

   T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats
   echo "interval &gt; 5" &gt; $EVENT/filter
   echo 1 &gt; $EVENT/enable

   ./run-my-fs-benchmark

   cat $T/trace &gt; /tmp/problem-handles

This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms.  Having
longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong
time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an
fsync() or an O_SYNC operation.  Here is an example line from the
trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over
1.2 seconds:

postmark-2917  [000] ....   196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 
   tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1
   dirtied_blocks 0

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2013-01-02T17:57:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-02T17:57:34+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Various bug fixes for ext4.  Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one
  which could cause file system corruptions when performing file punch
  operations."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list
  ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
  ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
  ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs
  ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk
  ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
  ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
  ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()
  jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
  ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount
  ext4: fix extent tree corruption caused by hole punch
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Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Various bug fixes for ext4.  Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one
  which could cause file system corruptions when performing file punch
  operations."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list
  ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
  ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
  ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs
  ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk
  ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
  ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
  ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()
  jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
  ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount
  ext4: fix extent tree corruption caused by hole punch
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<entry>
<title>ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk</title>
<updated>2012-12-25T18:33:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-25T18:33:13+00:00</published>
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Although I put this in, I now think it was a bad decision.  For most
users, there is very little to be done in this case.  They get the
message, once per day, with no real context or proposed action.  TBH,
it generates support calls when it probably does not need to; the
message sounds more dire than the situation really is.

Just nuke it.  Normal investigation via blktrace or whatnot can
reveal poor IO patterns if bad performance is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Although I put this in, I now think it was a bad decision.  For most
users, there is very little to be done in this case.  They get the
message, once per day, with no real context or proposed action.  TBH,
it generates support calls when it probably does not need to; the
message sounds more dire than the situation really is.

Just nuke it.  Normal investigation via blktrace or whatnot can
reveal poor IO patterns if bad performance is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"</title>
<updated>2012-12-18T01:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-17T23:59:39+00:00</published>
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But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.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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But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.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>ext4: Remove CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR</title>
<updated>2012-12-10T21:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tao Ma</name>
<email>boyu.mt@taobao.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-10T21:30:43+00:00</published>
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Ted has sent out a RFC about removing this feature. Eric and Jan
confirmed that both RedHat and SUSE enable this feature in all their
product.  David also said that "As far as I know, it's enabled in all
Android kernels that use ext4."  So it seems OK for us.

And what's more, as inline data depends its implementation on xattr,
and to be frank, I don't run any test again inline data enabled while
xattr disabled.  So I think we should add inline data and remove this
config option in the same release.

[ The savings if you disable CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR is only 27k, which
  isn't much in the grand scheme of things.  Since no one seems to be
  testing this configuration except for some automated compile farms, on
  balance we are better removing this config option, and so that it is
  effectively always enabled. -- tytso ]

Cc: David Brown &lt;davidb@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma &lt;boyu.mt@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Ted has sent out a RFC about removing this feature. Eric and Jan
confirmed that both RedHat and SUSE enable this feature in all their
product.  David also said that "As far as I know, it's enabled in all
Android kernels that use ext4."  So it seems OK for us.

And what's more, as inline data depends its implementation on xattr,
and to be frank, I don't run any test again inline data enabled while
xattr disabled.  So I think we should add inline data and remove this
config option in the same release.

[ The savings if you disable CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR is only 27k, which
  isn't much in the grand scheme of things.  Since no one seems to be
  testing this configuration except for some automated compile farms, on
  balance we are better removing this config option, and so that it is
  effectively always enabled. -- tytso ]

Cc: David Brown &lt;davidb@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma &lt;boyu.mt@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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