linux.git/fs/ext2/super.c, branch v2.6.22

ext2: fix return of uninitialised variable

2007-06-28T18:38:29+00:00

gcc correctly says

fs/ext2/super.c: In function 'ext2_remount':
fs/ext2/super.c:1055: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2: disallow setting xip on remount

2007-06-24T15:59:12+00:00

Yan Zheng pointed out that ext2_remount lacks checking if -o xip should be
enabled or not.  This patch checks for presence of direct_access on the
backing block device and if the blocksize meets the requirements.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte 
Cc: Yan Zheng 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR

2007-05-17T12:23:04+00:00

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Steven French 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag

2007-05-07T19:12:57+00:00

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

2007-02-12T17:48:47+00:00

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLs

2007-02-11T18:51:34+00:00

Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2 or
ext3 or ext4 filesystem is tuned to mount with "acl", but mounted by a
kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating
inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666,
and mkdir creates directories as 0777.

This appears to have worked right until 2.6.11, when a fix to the default
mode on symlinks (always 0777) assumed VFS applies umask: which it does,
unless the mount is marked for ACLs; but ext[234] set MS_POSIXACL in
s_flags according to s_mount_opt set according to def_mount_opts.

We could revert to the 2.6.10 ext[234]_init_acl (adding an S_ISLNK test);
but other filesystems only set MS_POSIXACL when ACLs are configured.  We
could fix this at another level; but it seems most robust to avoid setting
the s_mount_opt flag in the first place (at the expense of more ifdefs).

Likewise don't set the XATTR_USER flag when built without XATTR support.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Tigran Aivazian 
Cc: 
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel

2006-12-08T16:28:51+00:00

This facility provides three entry points:

	ilog2()		Log base 2 of unsigned long
	ilog2_u32()	Log base 2 of u32
	ilog2_u64()	Log base 2 of u64

These facilities can either be used inside functions on dynamic data:

	int do_something(long q)
	{
		...;
		y = ilog2(x)
		...;
	}

Or can be used to statically initialise global variables with constant values:

	unsigned n = ilog2(27);

When performing static initialisation, the compiler will report "error:
initializer element is not constant" if asked to take a log of zero or of
something not reducible to a constant.  They treat negative numbers as
unsigned.

When not dealing with a constant, they fall back to using fls() which permits
them to use arch-specific log calculation instructions - such as BSR on
x86/x86_64 or SCAN on FRV - if available.

[akpm@osdl.org: MMC fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ext2: fsid for statvfs

2006-12-07T16:39:31+00:00

Update ext2_statfs to return an FSID that is a 64 bit XOR of the 128 bit
filesystem UUID as suggested by Andreas Dilger.  See the following Bugzilla
entry for details:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136

Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Stephen Tweedie 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t

2006-12-07T16:39:25+00:00

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL

2006-12-07T16:39:24+00:00

SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds