linux.git/fs/ext2, branch v2.6.29

ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes

2009-02-11T22:25:36+00:00

For a reason that I was unable to understand in three months of debugging,
mount ext2 -o remount stopped working properly when remounting from
regular operation to xip, or the other way around.  According to a git
bisect search, the problem was introduced with the VM_MIXEDMAP/PTE_SPECIAL
rework in the vm:

commit 70688e4dd1647f0ceb502bbd5964fa344c5eb411
Author: Nick Piggin 
Date:   Mon Apr 28 02:13:02 2008 -0700

    xip: support non-struct page backed memory

In the failing scenario, the filesystem is mounted read only via root=
kernel parameter on s390x.  During remount (in rc.sysinit), the inodes of
the bash binary and its libraries are busy and cannot be invalidated (the
bash which is running rc.sysinit resides on subject filesystem).
Afterwards, another bash process (running ifup-eth) recurses into a
subshell, runs dup_mm (via fork).  Some of the mappings in this bash
process were created from inodes that could not be invalidated during
remount.

Both parent and child process crash some time later due to inconsistencies
in their address spaces.  The issue seems to be timing sensitive, various
attempts to recreate it have failed.

This patch refuses to change the xip flag during remount in case some
inodes cannot be invalidated.  This patch keeps users from running into
that issue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Jared Hulbert 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2: also update the inode on disk when dir is IS_DIRSYNC

2009-01-16T00:39:42+00:00

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 
Tested-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2: tighten restrictions on inode flags

2009-01-08T16:31:00+00:00

At the moment there are few restrictions on which flags may be set on
which inodes.  Specifically DIRSYNC may only be set on directories and
IMMUTABLE and APPEND may not be set on links.  Tighten that to disallow
TOPDIR being set on non-directories and only NODUMP and NOATIME to be set
on non-regular file, non-directories.

Introduces a flags masking function which masks flags based on mode and
use it during inode creation and when flags are set via the ioctl to
facilitate future consistency.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin 
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent

2009-01-08T16:31:00+00:00

At present BTREE/INDEX is the only flag that new ext2 inodes do NOT
inherit from their parent.  In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR,
INDEX, IMAGIC and TOPDIR from being inherited.  List inheritable flags
explicitly to prevent future flags from accidentally being inherited.

This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866.

Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin 
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ext2: allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock separately

2009-01-08T16:31:00+00:00

As spotted by kmemtrace, struct ext2_sb_info is 17024 bytes on 64-bit
which makes it a very bad fit for SLAB allocators.  The culprit of the
wasted memory is ->s_blockgroup_lock which can be as big as 16 KB when
NR_CPUS >= 32.

To fix that, allocate ->s_blockgroup_lock, which fits nicely in a order 2
page in the worst case, separately.  This shinks down struct ext2_sb_info
enough to fit a 1 KB slab cache so now we allocate 16 KB + 1 KB instead of
32 KB saving 15 KB of memory.

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

ext2: fix ext2_splice_branch() comments

2009-01-08T16:31:00+00:00

There is no argument named @chain in ext2_splice_branch, remove references
to it.

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

nfsd race fixes: ext2

2008-12-31T23:07:43+00:00

* make ext2_new_inode() put the inode into icache in locked state
* do not unlock until the inode is fully set up; otherwise nfsd
might pick it in half-baked state.
* make sure that ext2_new_inode() does *not* lead to two inodes with the
same inumber hashed at the same time; otherwise a bogus fhandle coming
from nfsd might race with inode creation:

nfsd: iget_locked() creates inode
nfsd: try to read from disk, block on that.
ext2_new_inode(): allocate inode with that inumber
ext2_new_inode(): insert it into icache, set it up and dirty
ext2_write_inode(): get the relevant part of inode table in cache,
set the entry for our inode (and start writing to disk)
nfsd: get CPU again, look into inode table, see nice and sane on-disk
inode, set the in-core inode from it

oops - we have two in-core inodes with the same inumber live in icache,
both used for IO.  Welcome to fs corruption...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

ext2: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated

2008-12-31T23:07:39+00:00

Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the Ext2 filesystem

2008-11-13T23:38:50+00:00

Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev

2008-10-23T17:23:07+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: (66 commits)
  [PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls
  [PATCH] get rid of struct file use in blkdev_ioctl() BLKBSZSET
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_locked_ioctl()
  [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_driver_ioctl()
  [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends
  [PATCH] remember mode of reiserfs journal
  [PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close()
  [PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl
  [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()
  [PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop
  [PATCH] trim file propagation in block/compat_ioctl.c
  [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones
  [PATCH] switch sr
  [PATCH] switch sd
  [PATCH] switch ide-scsi
  [PATCH] switch tape_block
  [PATCH] switch dcssblk
  [PATCH] switch dasd
  [PATCH] switch mtd_blkdevs
  [PATCH] switch mmc
  ...