linux.git/fs/file_table.c, branch v2.6.29

filp_cachep can be static in fs/file_table.c

2008-12-31T23:07:42+00:00

Instead of creating the "filp" kmem_cache in vfs_caches_init(),
we can do it a litle be later in files_init(), so that filp_cachep
is static to fs/file_table.c

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

CRED: Use creds in file structs

2008-11-13T23:39:25+00:00

Attach creds to file structs and discard f_uid/f_gid.

file_operations::open() methods (such as hppfs_open()) should use file->f_cred
rather than current_cred().  At the moment file->f_cred will be current_cred()
at this point.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors

2008-11-13T23:39:18+00:00

Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors to hide their actual
implementation.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct

2008-11-13T23:39:16+00:00

Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne 

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

saner FASYNC handling on file close

2008-11-01T16:49:46+00:00

As it is, all instances of ->release() for files that have ->fasync()
need to remember to evict file from fasync lists; forgetting that
creates a hole and we actually have a bunch that *does* forget.

So let's keep our lives simple - let __fput() check FASYNC in
file->f_flags and call ->fasync() there if it's been set.  And lose that
crap in ->release() instances - leaving it there is still valid, but we
don't have to bother anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations

2008-10-21T11:47:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] f_count may wrap around

2008-07-27T00:53:40+00:00

make it atomic_long_t; while we are at it, get rid of useless checks in affs,
hfs and hpfs - ->open() always has it equal to 1, ->release() - to 0.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] split linux/file.h

2008-05-01T17:08:16+00:00

Initial splitoff of the low-level stuff; taken to fdtable.h

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: debugging for missed calls

2008-04-19T04:29:28+00:00

There have been a few oopses caused by 'struct file's with NULL f_vfsmnts.
There was also a set of potentially missed mnt_want_write()s from
dentry_open() calls.

This patch provides a very simple debugging framework to catch these kinds of
bugs.  It will WARN_ON() them, but should stop us from having any oopses or
mnt_writer count imbalances.

I'm quite convinced that this is a good thing because it found bugs in the
stuff I was working on as soon as I wrote it.

[hch: made it conditional on a debug option.
      But it's still a little bit too ugly]

[hch: merged forced remount r/o fix from Dave and akpm's fix for the fix]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for open()s

2008-04-19T04:29:25+00:00

This is the first really tricky patch in the series.  It elevates the writer
count on a mount each time a non-special file is opened for write.

We used to do this in may_open(), but Miklos pointed out that __dentry_open()
is used as well to create filps.  This will cover even those cases, while a
call in may_open() would not have.

There is also an elevated count around the vfs_create() call in open_namei().
See the comments for more details, but we need this to fix a 'create, remount,
fail r/w open()' race.

Some filesystems forego the use of normal vfs calls to create
struct files.   Make sure that these users elevate the mnt
writer count because they will get __fput(), and we need
to make sure they're balanced.

Acked-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro