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<title>linux-stable.git/fs, branch v3.5.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>NFSd: set nfsd_serv to NULL after service destruction</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:40:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Kinsbursky</name>
<email>skinsbursky@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-03T12:46:41+00:00</published>
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commit 57c8b13e3cd0f94944c9691ce7f58e5fcef8a12d upstream.

In nfsd_destroy():

	if (destroy)
		svc_shutdown_net(nfsd_serv, net);
	svc_destroy(nfsd_server);

svc_shutdown_net(nfsd_serv, net) calls nfsd_last_thread(), which sets
nfsd_serv to NULL, causing a NULL dereference on the following line.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky &lt;skinsbursky@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 57c8b13e3cd0f94944c9691ce7f58e5fcef8a12d upstream.

In nfsd_destroy():

	if (destroy)
		svc_shutdown_net(nfsd_serv, net);
	svc_destroy(nfsd_server);

svc_shutdown_net(nfsd_serv, net) calls nfsd_last_thread(), which sets
nfsd_serv to NULL, causing a NULL dereference on the following line.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky &lt;skinsbursky@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFSd: introduce nfsd_destroy() helper</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:40:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Kinsbursky</name>
<email>skinsbursky@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-03T12:46:41+00:00</published>
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commit 19f7e2ca44dfc3c1b3f499fc46801f98d403500f upstream.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky &lt;skinsbursky@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 19f7e2ca44dfc3c1b3f499fc46801f98d403500f upstream.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky &lt;skinsbursky@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFS: Fix Oopses in nfs_lookup_revalidate and nfs4_lookup_revalidate</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:39:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-22T20:08:17+00:00</published>
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[Fixed upstream as part of 0b728e1911c, but that's a much larger patch,
this is only the nfs portion backported as needed.]

Fix the following Oops in 3.5.1:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
 IP: [&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs]
 PGD 337c63067 PUD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
 CPU 5
 Modules linked in: nfs fscache nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc af_packet binfmt_misc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave dm_mod acpi_cpufreq mperf coretemp gpio_ich kvm_intel joydev kvm ioatdma hid_generic igb lpc_ich i7core_edac edac_core ptp serio_raw dca pcspkr i2c_i801 mfd_core sg pps_core usbhid crc32c_intel microcode button autofs4 uhci_hcd ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit sysimgblt sysfillrect syscopyarea ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh edd fan ata_piix thermal processor thermal_sys

 Pid: 30431, comm: java Not tainted 3.5.1-2-default #1 Supermicro X8DTT/X8DTT
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs]
 RSP: 0018:ffff8801b418bd38  EFLAGS: 00010292
 RAX: 00000000fffffff6 RBX: ffff88032016d800 RCX: 0000000000000020
 RDX: ffffffff00000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8801824a7b00
 RBP: ffff8801b418bdf8 R08: 7fffff0034323030 R09: fffffffff04c03ed
 R10: ffff8801824a7b00 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff8801824a7b00
 R13: ffff8801824a7b00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8803201725d0
 FS:  00002b53a46cb700(0000) GS:ffff88033fc20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 000000020a426000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process java (pid: 30431, threadinfo ffff8801b418a000, task ffff8801b5d20600)
 Stack:
  ffff8801b418be44 ffff88032016d800 ffff8801b418bdf8 0000000000000000
  ffff8801824a7b00 ffff8801b418bdd7 ffff8803201725d0 ffffffff8116a9c0
  ffff8801b5c38dc0 0000000000000007 ffff88032016d800 0000000000000000
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff8116a9c0&gt;] lookup_dcache+0x80/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff8116aa43&gt;] __lookup_hash+0x23/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff8116b4a5&gt;] lookup_one_len+0xc5/0x100
  [&lt;ffffffffa03869a3&gt;] nfs_sillyrename+0xe3/0x210 [nfs]
  [&lt;ffffffff8116cadf&gt;] vfs_unlink.part.25+0x7f/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff8116f22c&gt;] do_unlinkat+0x1ac/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff815717b9&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  [&lt;00002b5348b5f527&gt;] 0x2b5348b5f526
 Code: ec 38 b8 f6 ff ff ff 4c 89 64 24 18 4c 89 74 24 28 49 89 fc 48 89 5c 24 08 48 89 6c 24 10 49 89 f6 4c 89 6c 24 20 4c 89 7c 24 30 &lt;f6&gt; 46 38 40 0f 85 d1 00 00 00 e8 c4 c4 df e0 48 8b 58 30 49 89
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs]
  RSP &lt;ffff8801b418bd38&gt;
 CR2: 0000000000000038
 ---[ end trace 845113ed191985dd ]---

This Oops affects 3.5 kernels and older, and is due to lookup_one_len()
calling down to the dentry revalidation code with a NULL pointer
to struct nameidata.

It is fixed upstream by commit 0b728e1911c (stop passing nameidata *
to -&gt;d_revalidate())

Reported-by: Richard Ems &lt;richard.ems@cape-horn-eng.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[Fixed upstream as part of 0b728e1911c, but that's a much larger patch,
this is only the nfs portion backported as needed.]

Fix the following Oops in 3.5.1:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000038
 IP: [&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs]
 PGD 337c63067 PUD 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
 CPU 5
 Modules linked in: nfs fscache nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc af_packet binfmt_misc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave dm_mod acpi_cpufreq mperf coretemp gpio_ich kvm_intel joydev kvm ioatdma hid_generic igb lpc_ich i7core_edac edac_core ptp serio_raw dca pcspkr i2c_i801 mfd_core sg pps_core usbhid crc32c_intel microcode button autofs4 uhci_hcd ttm drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit sysimgblt sysfillrect syscopyarea ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh edd fan ata_piix thermal processor thermal_sys

 Pid: 30431, comm: java Not tainted 3.5.1-2-default #1 Supermicro X8DTT/X8DTT
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs]
 RSP: 0018:ffff8801b418bd38  EFLAGS: 00010292
 RAX: 00000000fffffff6 RBX: ffff88032016d800 RCX: 0000000000000020
 RDX: ffffffff00000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8801824a7b00
 RBP: ffff8801b418bdf8 R08: 7fffff0034323030 R09: fffffffff04c03ed
 R10: ffff8801824a7b00 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: ffff8801824a7b00
 R13: ffff8801824a7b00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8803201725d0
 FS:  00002b53a46cb700(0000) GS:ffff88033fc20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000038 CR3: 000000020a426000 CR4: 00000000000007e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process java (pid: 30431, threadinfo ffff8801b418a000, task ffff8801b5d20600)
 Stack:
  ffff8801b418be44 ffff88032016d800 ffff8801b418bdf8 0000000000000000
  ffff8801824a7b00 ffff8801b418bdd7 ffff8803201725d0 ffffffff8116a9c0
  ffff8801b5c38dc0 0000000000000007 ffff88032016d800 0000000000000000
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff8116a9c0&gt;] lookup_dcache+0x80/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff8116aa43&gt;] __lookup_hash+0x23/0x90
  [&lt;ffffffff8116b4a5&gt;] lookup_one_len+0xc5/0x100
  [&lt;ffffffffa03869a3&gt;] nfs_sillyrename+0xe3/0x210 [nfs]
  [&lt;ffffffff8116cadf&gt;] vfs_unlink.part.25+0x7f/0xe0
  [&lt;ffffffff8116f22c&gt;] do_unlinkat+0x1ac/0x1d0
  [&lt;ffffffff815717b9&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  [&lt;00002b5348b5f527&gt;] 0x2b5348b5f526
 Code: ec 38 b8 f6 ff ff ff 4c 89 64 24 18 4c 89 74 24 28 49 89 fc 48 89 5c 24 08 48 89 6c 24 10 49 89 f6 4c 89 6c 24 20 4c 89 7c 24 30 &lt;f6&gt; 46 38 40 0f 85 d1 00 00 00 e8 c4 c4 df e0 48 8b 58 30 49 89
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffffa03789cd&gt;] nfs_lookup_revalidate+0x2d/0x480 [nfs]
  RSP &lt;ffff8801b418bd38&gt;
 CR2: 0000000000000038
 ---[ end trace 845113ed191985dd ]---

This Oops affects 3.5 kernels and older, and is due to lookup_one_len()
calling down to the dentry revalidation code with a NULL pointer
to struct nameidata.

It is fixed upstream by commit 0b728e1911c (stop passing nameidata *
to -&gt;d_revalidate())

Reported-by: Richard Ems &lt;richard.ems@cape-horn-eng.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFS: return error from decode_getfh in decode open</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Weston Andros Adamson</name>
<email>dros@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-06T19:54:27+00:00</published>
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commit 01913b49cf1dc6409a07dd2a4cc6af2e77f3c410 upstream.

If decode_getfh failed, nfs4_xdr_dec_open would return 0 since the last
decode_* call must have succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson &lt;dros@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 01913b49cf1dc6409a07dd2a4cc6af2e77f3c410 upstream.

If decode_getfh failed, nfs4_xdr_dec_open would return 0 since the last
decode_* call must have succeeded.

Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson &lt;dros@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFS: Fix a problem with the legacy binary mount code</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-04T15:05:07+00:00</published>
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commit 872ece86ea5c367aa92f44689c2d01a1c767aeb3 upstream.

Apparently, am-utils is still using the legacy binary mountdata interface,
and is having trouble parsing /proc/mounts due to the 'port=' field being
incorrectly set.

The following patch should fix up the regression.

Reported-by: Marius Tolzmann &lt;tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 872ece86ea5c367aa92f44689c2d01a1c767aeb3 upstream.

Apparently, am-utils is still using the legacy binary mountdata interface,
and is having trouble parsing /proc/mounts due to the 'port=' field being
incorrectly set.

The following patch should fix up the regression.

Reported-by: Marius Tolzmann &lt;tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>NFS: Fix the initialisation of the readdir 'cookieverf' array</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-03T18:56:02+00:00</published>
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commit c3f52af3e03013db5237e339c817beaae5ec9e3a upstream.

When the NFS_COOKIEVERF helper macro was converted into a static
inline function in commit 99fadcd764 (nfs: convert NFS_*(inode)
helpers to static inline), we broke the initialisation of the
readdir cookies, since that depended on doing a memset with an
argument of 'sizeof(NFS_COOKIEVERF(inode))' which therefore
changed from sizeof(be32 cookieverf[2]) to sizeof(be32 *).

At this point, NFS_COOKIEVERF seems to be more of an obfuscation
than a helper, so the best thing would be to just get rid of it.

Also see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46881

Reported-by: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Reported-by: David Binderman &lt;dcb314@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c3f52af3e03013db5237e339c817beaae5ec9e3a upstream.

When the NFS_COOKIEVERF helper macro was converted into a static
inline function in commit 99fadcd764 (nfs: convert NFS_*(inode)
helpers to static inline), we broke the initialisation of the
readdir cookies, since that depended on doing a memset with an
argument of 'sizeof(NFS_COOKIEVERF(inode))' which therefore
changed from sizeof(be32 cookieverf[2]) to sizeof(be32 *).

At this point, NFS_COOKIEVERF seems to be more of an obfuscation
than a helper, so the best thing would be to just get rid of it.

Also see: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46881

Reported-by: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Reported-by: David Binderman &lt;dcb314@hotmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cifs: fix return value in cifsConvertToUTF16</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:39:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-18T18:21:01+00:00</published>
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commit c73f693989d7a7d99ec66a7065295a0c93d0b127 upstream.

This function returns the wrong value, which causes the callers to get
the length of the resulting pathname wrong when it contains non-ASCII
characters.

This seems to fix https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6767

Reported-by: Baldvin Kovacs &lt;baldvin.kovacs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-and-Tested-by: Nicolas Lefebvre &lt;nico.lefebvre@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c73f693989d7a7d99ec66a7065295a0c93d0b127 upstream.

This function returns the wrong value, which causes the callers to get
the length of the resulting pathname wrong when it contains non-ASCII
characters.

This seems to fix https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6767

Reported-by: Baldvin Kovacs &lt;baldvin.kovacs@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-and-Tested-by: Nicolas Lefebvre &lt;nico.lefebvre@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc: fix potential unregister_sysctl_table hang</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:39:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Francesco Ruggeri</name>
<email>fruggeri@aristanetworks.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-13T22:03:37+00:00</published>
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commit 6bf6104573482570f7103d3e5ddf9574db43a363 upstream.

The unregister_sysctl_table() function hangs if all references to its
ctl_table_header structure are not dropped.

This can happen sometimes because of a leak in proc_sys_lookup():
proc_sys_lookup() gets a reference to the table via lookup_entry(), but
it does not release it when a subsequent call to sysctl_follow_link()
fails.

This patch fixes this leak by making sure the reference is always
dropped on return.

See also commit 076c3eed2c31 ("sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup
introducing find_entry and lookup_entry") which reorganized this code in
3.4.

Tested in Linux 3.4.4.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri &lt;fruggeri@aristanetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6bf6104573482570f7103d3e5ddf9574db43a363 upstream.

The unregister_sysctl_table() function hangs if all references to its
ctl_table_header structure are not dropped.

This can happen sometimes because of a leak in proc_sys_lookup():
proc_sys_lookup() gets a reference to the table via lookup_entry(), but
it does not release it when a subsequent call to sysctl_follow_link()
fails.

This patch fixes this leak by making sure the reference is always
dropped on return.

See also commit 076c3eed2c31 ("sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup
introducing find_entry and lookup_entry") which reorganized this code in
3.4.

Tested in Linux 3.4.4.

Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri &lt;fruggeri@aristanetworks.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>eCryptfs: Copy up attributes of the lower target inode after rename</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:38:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tyler Hicks</name>
<email>tyhicks@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-13T19:00:56+00:00</published>
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commit 8335eafc2859e1a26282bef7c3d19f3d68868b8a upstream.

After calling into the lower filesystem to do a rename, the lower target
inode's attributes were not copied up to the eCryptfs target inode. This
resulted in the eCryptfs target inode staying around, rather than being
evicted, because i_nlink was not updated for the eCryptfs inode. This
also meant that eCryptfs didn't do the final iput() on the lower target
inode so it stayed around, as well. This would result in a failure to
free up space occupied by the target file in the rename() operation.
Both target inodes would eventually be evicted when the eCryptfs
filesystem was unmounted.

This patch calls fsstack_copy_attr_all() after the lower filesystem
does its -&gt;rename() so that important inode attributes, such as i_nlink,
are updated at the eCryptfs layer. ecryptfs_evict_inode() is now called
and eCryptfs can drop its final reference on the lower inode.

http://launchpad.net/bugs/561129

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 8335eafc2859e1a26282bef7c3d19f3d68868b8a upstream.

After calling into the lower filesystem to do a rename, the lower target
inode's attributes were not copied up to the eCryptfs target inode. This
resulted in the eCryptfs target inode staying around, rather than being
evicted, because i_nlink was not updated for the eCryptfs inode. This
also meant that eCryptfs didn't do the final iput() on the lower target
inode so it stayed around, as well. This would result in a failure to
free up space occupied by the target file in the rename() operation.
Both target inodes would eventually be evicted when the eCryptfs
filesystem was unmounted.

This patch calls fsstack_copy_attr_all() after the lower filesystem
does its -&gt;rename() so that important inode attributes, such as i_nlink,
are updated at the eCryptfs layer. ecryptfs_evict_inode() is now called
and eCryptfs can drop its final reference on the lower inode.

http://launchpad.net/bugs/561129

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Tested-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>vfs: dcache: use DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED instead of DCACHE_DISCONNECTED in d_kill()</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T17:38:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-17T20:31:38+00:00</published>
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commit b161dfa6937ae46d50adce8a7c6b12233e96e7bd upstream.

IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock.  Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.

The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed.  This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.

This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.

IBM reported successful test results with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b161dfa6937ae46d50adce8a7c6b12233e96e7bd upstream.

IBM reported a soft lockup after applying the fix for the rename_lock
deadlock.  Commit c83ce989cb5f ("VFS: Fix the nfs sillyrename regression
in kernel 2.6.38") was found to be the culprit.

The nfs sillyrename fix used DCACHE_DISCONNECTED to indicate that the
dentry was killed.  This flag can be set on non-killed dentries too,
which results in infinite retries when trying to traverse the dentry
tree.

This patch introduces a separate flag: DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED, which is
only set in d_kill() and makes try_to_ascend() test only this flag.

IBM reported successful test results with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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