linux-stable.git/net/socket.c, branch linux-2.6.18.y

[NET]: Rate limiting for socket allocation failure messages.

2006-08-31T22:21:50+00:00

This patch limits the warning messages when socket allocation failures
happen. It happens under memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount

2006-06-23T14:42:45+00:00

Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

 (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
     pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
     very little.

 (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
     normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
     always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

 (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
     dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

     This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
     aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
     currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
     and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
     dentries being left unculled.

     However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
     implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
     simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
     inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
     with child trees.

     [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

 (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
     changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Cc: Nathan Scott 
Cc: Roland Dreier 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sockaddr patch

2006-05-01T10:06:10+00:00

On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:08, John D. Ramsdell wrote:
>  I noticed that a socketcall(bind) and socketcall(connect) event contain a
>  record of type=SOCKADDR, but I cannot see one for a system call event
>  associated with socketcall(accept).  Recording the sockaddr of an accepted
>  socket is important for cross platform information flow analys

Thanks for pointing this out. The following patch should address this.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[NET]: sockfd_lookup_light() returns random error for -EBADFD

2006-04-19T22:25:02+00:00

This applies to 2.6.17-rc2.

There is a missing initialization of err in sockfd_lookup_light() that
could return random error for an invalid file handle.

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block

2006-04-11T13:34:02+00:00

* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation
  [PATCH] Remove sys_ prefix of new syscalls from __NR_sys_*
  [PATCH] splice: warning fix
  [PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups
  [PATCH] splice: comment styles
  [PATCH] splice: add Ingo as addition copyright holder
  [PATCH] splice: unlikely() optimizations
  [PATCH] splice: speedups and optimizations
  [PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups
  [PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros
  [PATCH] splice: speedup __generic_file_splice_read
  [PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support
  [PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets
  [PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction
  [PATCH] splice: be smarter about calling do_page_cache_readahead()
  [PATCH] splice: optimize the splice buffer mapping
  [PATCH] splice: cleanup __generic_file_splice_read()
  [PATCH] splice: only call wake_up_interruptible() when we really have to
  [PATCH] splice: potential !page dereference
  [PATCH] splice: mark the io page as accessed

[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: network codes

2006-04-11T13:18:31+00:00

for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs.  We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs.  This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.

We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.

This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu under /net

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] splice: warning fix

2006-04-11T11:59:36+00:00

From: Andrew Morton 

net/socket.c:148: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

extern declarations in .c files!  Bad boy.

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[NET]: Fully fix the memory leaks in sys_accept().

2006-04-01T20:48:36+00:00

Andi Kleen was right, fput() on sock->file will end up calling
sock_release() if necessary.  So here is the rest of his version
of the fix for these leaks.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: Fix dentry leak in sys_accept().

2006-04-01T09:00:14+00:00

This regression was added by commit:
39d8c1b6fbaeb8d6adec4a8c08365cc9eaca6ae4
("Do not lose accepted socket when -ENFILE/-EMFILE.")

This is based upon a patch from Andi Kleen.

Thanks to Adrian Bridgett for narrowing down a good test case, and to
Andi Kleen and Andrew Morton for eyeballing this code.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller