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<title>exportfs: add new methods</title>
<updated>2007-10-22T15:13:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2007-10-21T23:42:05+00:00</published>
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Add the guts for the new filesystem API to exportfs.

There's now a fh_to_dentry method that returns a dentry for the object looked
for given a filehandle fragment, and a fh_to_parent operation that returns the
dentry for the encoded parent directory in case the file handle contains it.

There are default implementations for these methods that only take a callback
for an nfs-enhanced iget variant and implement the rest of the semantics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Timothy Shimmin &lt;tes@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;mason@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" &lt;vs@namesys.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.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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Add the guts for the new filesystem API to exportfs.

There's now a fh_to_dentry method that returns a dentry for the object looked
for given a filehandle fragment, and a fh_to_parent operation that returns the
dentry for the encoded parent directory in case the file handle contains it.

There are default implementations for these methods that only take a callback
for an nfs-enhanced iget variant and implement the rest of the semantics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Timothy Shimmin &lt;tes@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;mason@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" &lt;vs@namesys.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.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>make fs/libfs.c:simple_commit_write() static</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:42:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2007-10-17T06:27:16+00:00</published>
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simple_commit_write() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@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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simple_commit_write() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@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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<title>fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops</title>
<updated>2007-10-16T16:42:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
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<published>2007-10-16T08:25:01+00:00</published>
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These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).

[mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
[dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.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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These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).

[mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
[dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov &lt;dmonakhov@openvz.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>fs/libfs.c: &gt;80 columns line break fix</title>
<updated>2007-05-09T04:44:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ronni Nielsen</name>
<email>theronni@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2007-05-09T04:44:57+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ronni Nielsen &lt;theronni@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ronni Nielsen &lt;theronni@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>inode numbering: change libfs sb creation routines to avoid collisions with their root inodes</title>
<updated>2007-05-08T18:15:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-08T07:32:31+00:00</published>
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This patch makes it so that simple_fill_super and get_sb_pseudo assign their
root inodes to be number 1.  It also fixes up a couple of callers of
simple_fill_super that were passing in files arrays that had an index at
number 1, and adds a warning for any caller that sends in such an array.

It would have been nice to have made it so that it wasn't possible to make
such a collision, but some callers need to be able to control what inode
number their entries get, so I think this is the best that can be done.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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This patch makes it so that simple_fill_super and get_sb_pseudo assign their
root inodes to be number 1.  It also fixes up a couple of callers of
simple_fill_super that were passing in files arrays that had an index at
number 1, and adds a warning for any caller that sends in such an array.

It would have been nice to have made it so that it wasn't possible to make
such a collision, but some callers need to be able to control what inode
number their entries get, so I think this is the best that can be done.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>[PATCH] shmem and simple const super_operations</title>
<updated>2007-03-05T15:57:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh@veritas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-05T08:30:28+00:00</published>
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shmem's super_operations were missed from the recent const-ification;
and simple_fill_super()'s, which can share with get_sb_pseudo()'s.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.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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shmem's super_operations were missed from the recent const-ification;
and simple_fill_super()'s, which can share with get_sb_pseudo()'s.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Acked-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.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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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] fs: fix libfs data leak</title>
<updated>2007-02-21T01:10:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-20T21:58:08+00:00</published>
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simple_prepare_write leaks uninitialised kernel data.  This happens because
the it leaves an uninitialised "hole" over the part of the page that the
write is expected to go to.  This is fine, but it then marks the page
uptodate, which means a concurrent read can come in and copy the
uninitialised memory into userspace before it written to.

Fix it by simply marking it uptodate in simple_commit_write instead, after
the hole has been filled in.  This could theoretically break an fs that
uses simple_prepare_write and not simple_commit_write, and that relies on
the incorrect simple_prepare_write behaviour.  Luckily, none of those
exists in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&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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simple_prepare_write leaks uninitialised kernel data.  This happens because
the it leaves an uninitialised "hole" over the part of the page that the
write is expected to go to.  This is fine, but it then marks the page
uptodate, which means a concurrent read can come in and copy the
uninitialised memory into userspace before it written to.

Fix it by simply marking it uptodate in simple_commit_write instead, after
the hole has been filled in.  This could theoretically break an fs that
uses simple_prepare_write and not simple_commit_write, and that relies on
the incorrect simple_prepare_write behaviour.  Luckily, none of those
exists in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&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] Mark struct super_operations const</title>
<updated>2007-02-12T17:48:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef 'Jeff' Sipek</name>
<email>jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-12T08:55:41+00:00</published>
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This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc &amp; sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.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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This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc &amp; sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.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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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2</title>
<updated>2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-12T08:55:39+00:00</published>
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Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.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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Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.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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<title>[PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path</title>
<updated>2006-12-08T16:28:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef "Jeff" Sipek</name>
<email>jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-08T10:36:35+00:00</published>
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This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek &lt;jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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