linux-stable.git/fs/fuse, branch linux-2.6.35.y

fuse: fix hang of single threaded fuseblk filesystem

2011-03-31T18:58:16+00:00

commit 5a18ec176c934ca1bc9dc61580a5e0e90a9b5733 upstream.

Single threaded NTFS-3G could get stuck if a delayed RELEASE reply
triggered a DESTROY request via path_put().

Fix this by

 a) making RELEASE requests synchronous, whenever possible, on fuseblk
 filesystems

 b) if not possible (triggered by an asynchronous read/write) then do
 the path_put() in a separate thread with schedule_work().

Reported-by: Oliver Neukum 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

fuse: fix ioctl when server is 32bit

2011-02-06T19:03:24+00:00

commit d9d318d39dd5cb686660504a3565aac453709ccc upstream.

If a 32bit CUSE server is run on 64bit this results in EIO being
returned to the caller.

The reason is that FUSE_IOCTL_RETRY reply was defined to use 'struct
iovec', which is different on 32bit and 64bit archs.

Work around this by looking at the size of the reply to determine
which struct was used.  This is only needed if CONFIG_COMPAT is
defined.

A more permanent fix for the interface will be to use the same struct
on both 32bit and 64bit.

Reported-by: "ccmail111" 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
CC: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: verify ioctl retries

2011-02-06T19:03:24+00:00

commit 7572777eef78ebdee1ecb7c258c0ef94d35bad16 upstream.

Verify that the total length of the iovec returned in FUSE_IOCTL_RETRY
doesn't overflow iov_length().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
CC: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: fix attributes after open(O_TRUNC)

2010-12-14T22:40:14+00:00

commit a0822c55779d9319939eac69f00bb729ea9d23da upstream.

The attribute cache for a file was not being cleared when a file is opened
with O_TRUNC.

If the filesystem's open operation truncates the file ("atomic_o_trunc"
feature flag is set) then the kernel should invalidate the cached st_mtime
and st_ctime attributes.

Also i_size should be explicitly be set to zero as it is used sometimes
without refreshing the cache.

Signed-off-by: Ken Sumrall 
Cc: Anfei 
Cc: "Anand V. Avati" 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

fuse: flush background queue on connection close

2010-09-20T20:36:14+00:00

commit 595afaf9e6ee1b48e13ec4b8bcc8c7dee888161a upstream.

David Bartly reported that fuse can hang in fuse_get_req_nofail() when
the connection to the filesystem server is no longer active.

If bg_queue is not empty then flush_bg_queue() called from
request_end() can put more requests on to the pending queue.  If this
happens while ending requests on the processing queue then those
background requests will be queued to the pending list and never
ended.

Another problem is that fuse_dev_release() didn't wake up processes
sleeping on blocked_waitq.

Solve this by:

 a) flushing the background queue before calling end_requests() on the
    pending and processing queues

 b) setting blocked = 0 and waking up processes waiting on
    blocked_waitq()

Thanks to David for an excellent bug report.

Reported-by: David Bartley 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2010-05-30T16:16:14+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  mm: export generic_pipe_buf_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device
  fuse: allow splice to move pages
  mm: export remove_from_page_cache() to modules
  mm: export lru_cache_add_*() to modules
  fuse: support splice() writing to fuse device
  fuse: get page reference for readpages
  fuse: use get_user_pages_fast()
  fuse: remove unneeded variable

drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync

2010-05-28T02:05:02+00:00

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

driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading

2010-05-25T22:08:26+00:00

This adds:
  alias: devname:
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon 
Cc: Tigran Aivazian 
Cc: Ian Kent 
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device

2010-05-25T13:06:07+00:00

Allow userspace filesystem implementation to use splice() to read from
the fuse device.

The userspace filesystem can now transfer data coming from a WRITE
request to an arbitrary file descriptor (regular file, block device or
socket) without having to go through a userspace buffer.

The semantics of using splice() to read messages are:

 1)  with a single splice() call move the whole message from the fuse
     device to a temporary pipe
 2)  read the header from the pipe and determine the message type
 3a) if message is a WRITE then splice data from pipe to destination
 3b) else read rest of message to userspace buffer

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: allow splice to move pages

2010-05-25T13:06:07+00:00

When splicing buffers to the fuse device with SPLICE_F_MOVE, try to
move pages from the pipe buffer into the page cache.  This allows
populating the fuse filesystem's cache without ever touching the page
contents, i.e. zero copy read capability.

The following steps are performed when trying to move a page into the
page cache:

 - buf->ops->confirm() to make sure the new page is uptodate
 - buf->ops->steal() to try to remove the new page from it's previous place
 - remove_from_page_cache() on the old page
 - add_to_page_cache_locked() on the new page

If any of the above steps fail (non fatally) then the code falls back
to copying the page.  In particular ->steal() will fail if there are
external references (other than the page cache and the pipe buffer) to
the page.

Also since the remove_from_page_cache() + add_to_page_cache_locked()
are non-atomic it is possible that the page cache is repopulated in
between the two and add_to_page_cache_locked() will fail.  This could
be fixed by creating a new atomic replace_page_cache_page() function.

fuse_readpages_end() needed to be reworked so it works even if
page->mapping is NULL for some or all pages which can happen if the
add_to_page_cache_locked() failed.

A number of sanity checks were added to make sure the stolen pages
don't have weird flags set, etc...  These could be moved into generic
splice/steal code.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi