linux-stable.git/fs/proc/inode.c, branch linux-4.1.y

proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mount points

2015-07-21T17:10:00+00:00

commit eb6d38d5427b3ad42f5268da0f1dd31bb0af1264 upstream.

Add a new function proc_create_mount_point that when used to creates a
directory that can not be added to.

Add a new function is_empty_pde to test if a function is a mount
point.

Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting
a permanently empty directory to the vfs.

Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories.

Update /proc/openprom and /proc/fs/nfsd to be permanently empty directories.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations

2015-04-15T19:06:57+00:00

that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

procfs: fix race between symlink removals and traversals

2015-02-22T16:43:12+00:00

use_pde()/unuse_pde() in ->follow_link()/->put_link() resp.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: proc: use PDE() to get proc_dir_entry

2015-02-13T02:54:12+00:00

Use the PDE() helper to get proc_dir_entry instead of coding it directly.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov 
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kill proc_ns completely

2014-12-11T02:30:57+00:00

procfs inodes need only the ns_ops part; nsfs inodes don't need it at all

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

take the targets of /proc//ns/ symlinks to separate fs

2014-12-11T02:30:20+00:00

New pseudo-filesystem: nsfs.  Targets of /proc/*/ns/* live there now.
It's not mountable (not even registered, so it's not in /proc/filesystems,
etc.).  Files on it *are* bindable - we explicitly permit that in do_loopback().

This stuff lives in fs/nsfs.c now; proc_ns_fget() moved there as well.
get_proc_ns() is a macro now (it's simply returning ->i_private; would
have been an inline, if not for header ordering headache).
proc_ns_inode() is an ex-parrot.  The interface used in procfs is
ns_get_path(path, task, ops) and ns_get_name(buf, size, task, ops).

Dentries and inodes are never hashed; a non-counting reference to dentry
is stashed in ns_common (removed by ->d_prune()) and reused by ns_get_path()
if present.  See ns_get_path()/ns_prune_dentry/nsfs_evict() for details
of that mechanism.

As the result, proc_ns_follow_link() has stopped poking in nd->path.mnt;
it does nd_jump_link() on a consistent  pair it gets
from ns_get_path().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

copy address of proc_ns_ops into ns_common

2014-12-04T19:34:47+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make proc_ns_operations work with struct ns_common * instead of void *

2014-12-04T19:34:17+00:00

We can do that now.  And kill ->inum(), while we are at it - all instances
are identical.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread

2014-08-04T17:07:11+00:00

/proc/thread-self is derived from /proc/self.  /proc/thread-self
points to the directory in proc containing information about the
current thread.

This funtionality has been missing for a long time, and is tricky to
implement in userspace as gettid() is not exported by glibc.  More
importantly this allows fixing defects in /proc/mounts and /proc/net
where in a threaded application today they wind up being empty files
when only the initial pthread has exited, causing problems for other
threads.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

fs/proc/inode.c: use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

2014-04-07T23:36:04+00:00

Replace rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure
is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure.  And in the
case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize.  So,
rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to
RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL)

Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds