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<title>ext2: Do not update mtime of a moved directory</title>
<updated>2009-06-18T20:03:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2009-06-17T23:26:20+00:00</published>
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One of our users is complaining that his backup tool is upset on ext2
(while it's happy on ext3, xfs, ...) because of the mtime change.

The problem is:

    mkdir foo
    mkdir bar
    mkdir foo/a

Now under ext2:
    mv foo/a foo/b

changes mtime of 'foo/a' (foo/b after the move).  That does not really
make sense and it does not happen under any other filesystem I've seen.

More complicated is:
    mv foo/a bar/a

This changes mtime of foo/a (bar/a after the move) and it makes some
sense since we had to update parent directory pointer of foo/a.  But
again, no other filesystem does this.  So after some thoughts I'd vote
for consistency and change ext2 to behave the same as other filesystems.

Do not update mtime of a moved directory.  Specs don't say anything
about it (neither that it should, nor that it should not be updated) and
other common filesystems (ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, fat, ...) don't do
it.  So let's become more consistent.

Spotted by ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de, initial fix by Jörn Engel.

Reported-by: &lt;ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jörn Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&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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One of our users is complaining that his backup tool is upset on ext2
(while it's happy on ext3, xfs, ...) because of the mtime change.

The problem is:

    mkdir foo
    mkdir bar
    mkdir foo/a

Now under ext2:
    mv foo/a foo/b

changes mtime of 'foo/a' (foo/b after the move).  That does not really
make sense and it does not happen under any other filesystem I've seen.

More complicated is:
    mv foo/a bar/a

This changes mtime of foo/a (bar/a after the move) and it makes some
sense since we had to update parent directory pointer of foo/a.  But
again, no other filesystem does this.  So after some thoughts I'd vote
for consistency and change ext2 to behave the same as other filesystems.

Do not update mtime of a moved directory.  Specs don't say anything
about it (neither that it should, nor that it should not be updated) and
other common filesystems (ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, fat, ...) don't do
it.  So let's become more consistent.

Spotted by ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de, initial fix by Jörn Engel.

Reported-by: &lt;ronny.pretzsch@dfs.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Jörn Engel &lt;joern@logfs.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&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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<entry>
<title>switch ext2 to simple_fsync()</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T01:36:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2009-06-07T19:14:02+00:00</published>
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kill ext2_sync_file() (along with ext2/fsync.c), get rid of
ext2_update_inode() - it's an alias of ext2_write_inode().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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kill ext2_sync_file() (along with ext2/fsync.c), get rid of
ext2_update_inode() - it's an alias of ext2_write_inode().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ext2: also update the inode on disk when dir is IS_DIRSYNC</title>
<updated>2009-01-16T00:39:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-15T21:51:29+00:00</published>
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We used to just write changed page for IS_DIRSYNC inodes.  But we also
have to update the directory inode itself just for the case that we've
allocated a new block and changed i_size.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: still sync the data page]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&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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We used to just write changed page for IS_DIRSYNC inodes.  But we also
have to update the directory inode itself just for the case that we've
allocated a new block and changed i_size.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: still sync the data page]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@suse.cz&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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<title>[PATCH] get rid of on-stack dentry in ext2_get_parent()</title>
<updated>2008-10-23T09:13:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-24T11:28:39+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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<title>ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption</title>
<updated>2008-10-16T18:21:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-16T05:04:02+00:00</published>
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A very large directory with many read failures (either due to storage
problems, or due to invalid size &amp; blocks from corruption) will generate a
printk storm as the filesystem continues to try to read all the blocks.
This flood of messages can tie up the box until it is complete - which may
be a very long time, especially for very large corrupted values.

This is fixed by only reporting the corruption once each time we try to
read the directory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&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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A very large directory with many read failures (either due to storage
problems, or due to invalid size &amp; blocks from corruption) will generate a
printk storm as the filesystem continues to try to read all the blocks.
This flood of messages can tie up the box until it is complete - which may
be a very long time, especially for very large corrupted values.

This is fixed by only reporting the corruption once each time we try to
read the directory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Eugene Teo &lt;eugeneteo@kernel.sg&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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<entry>
<title>ext2: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-28T09:16:03+00:00</published>
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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.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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__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.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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<entry>
<title>fs/ext2: use BUG_ON</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julia Lawall</name>
<email>julia@diku.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-28T09:16:02+00:00</published>
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if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no
side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@ disable unlikely @ expression E,f; @@

(
  if (&lt;... f(...) ...&gt;) { BUG(); }
|
- if (unlikely(E)) { BUG(); }
+ BUG_ON(E);
)

@@ expression E,f; @@

(
  if (&lt;... f(...) ...&gt;) { BUG(); }
|
- if (E) { BUG(); }
+ BUG_ON(E);
)
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&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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if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no
side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// &lt;smpl&gt;
@ disable unlikely @ expression E,f; @@

(
  if (&lt;... f(...) ...&gt;) { BUG(); }
|
- if (unlikely(E)) { BUG(); }
+ BUG_ON(E);
)

@@ expression E,f; @@

(
  if (&lt;... f(...) ...&gt;) { BUG(); }
|
- if (E) { BUG(); }
+ BUG_ON(E);
)
// &lt;/smpl&gt;

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&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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<entry>
<title>ext2: improve ext2_readdir() return value</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-28T09:16:00+00:00</published>
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Improve ext2_readdir() return value for ext2_get_page() failure by using the
actual result of ext2_get_page().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&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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Improve ext2_readdir() return value for ext2_get_page() failure by using the
actual result of ext2_get_page().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&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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<entry>
<title>BKL-removal: convert ext2 over to use unlocked_ioctl</title>
<updated>2008-02-06T18:41:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-06T09:40:10+00:00</published>
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I checked ext2_ioctl and could not find anything in there that would need the
BKL.  So convert it over to use unlocked_ioctl

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&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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I checked ext2_ioctl and could not find anything in there that would need the
BKL.  So convert it over to use unlocked_ioctl

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&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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<title>ext2: avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size</title>
<updated>2007-10-22T15:13:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-21T23:41:40+00:00</published>
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With 64KB blocksize, a directory entry can have size 64KB which does not
fit into 16 bits we have for entry length.  So we store 0xffff instead and
convert the value when read from / written to disk.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&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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With 64KB blocksize, a directory entry can have size 64KB which does not
fit into 16 bits we have for entry length.  So we store 0xffff instead and
convert the value when read from / written to disk.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&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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