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<title>vfs: make get_sb_pseudo set s_maxbytes to value that can be cast to signed</title>
<updated>2009-08-18T23:31:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2009-08-18T21:11:08+00:00</published>
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get_sb_pseudo sets s_maxbytes to ~0ULL which becomes negative when cast
to a signed value.  Fix it to use MAX_LFS_FILESIZE which casts properly
to a positive signed value.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Robert Love &lt;rlove@google.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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get_sb_pseudo sets s_maxbytes to ~0ULL which becomes negative when cast
to a signed value.  Fix it to use MAX_LFS_FILESIZE which casts properly
to a positive signed value.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steve French &lt;smfrench@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Robert Love &lt;rlove@google.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>New helper - simple_fsync()</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T01:36:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-07T18:56:44+00:00</published>
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writes associated buffers, then does sync_inode() to write
the inode itself (and to make it clean).  Depends on
-&gt;write_inode() honouring the second argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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writes associated buffers, then does sync_inode() to write
the inode itself (and to make it clean).  Depends on
-&gt;write_inode() honouring the second argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()</title>
<updated>2009-05-09T14:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-06T05:34:22+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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<entry>
<title>kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set()</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T10:09:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-25T15:48:35+00:00</published>
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Impact: cleanup

We want to remove percpu.h from rcupdate.h (for upcoming kmemtrace
changes), but this is not possible currently without breaking the
build because fs.h has an implicit include file depedency: it
uses PAGE_SIZE but does not include asm/page.h which defines it.

This problem gets masked in practice because most fs.h using sites
use rcupreempt.h (and other headers) which includes percpu.h which
brings in asm/page.h indirectly.

We cannot add asm/page.h to asm/fs.h because page.h is not an
exported header.

Move simple_transaction_set() to the other simple-transaction
file helpers in fs/libfs.c.

This removes the include file hell and also reduces
kernel size a bit.

Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu &lt;eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro&gt;
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: &lt;1237898630.25315.83.camel@penberg-laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: cleanup

We want to remove percpu.h from rcupdate.h (for upcoming kmemtrace
changes), but this is not possible currently without breaking the
build because fs.h has an implicit include file depedency: it
uses PAGE_SIZE but does not include asm/page.h which defines it.

This problem gets masked in practice because most fs.h using sites
use rcupreempt.h (and other headers) which includes percpu.h which
brings in asm/page.h indirectly.

We cannot add asm/page.h to asm/fs.h because page.h is not an
exported header.

Move simple_transaction_set() to the other simple-transaction
file helpers in fs/libfs.c.

This removes the include file hell and also reduces
kernel size a bit.

Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu &lt;eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro&gt;
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: &lt;1237898630.25315.83.camel@penberg-laptop&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void</title>
<updated>2009-03-27T18:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sukadev Bhattiprolu</name>
<email>sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-04T20:06:34+00:00</published>
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simple_set_mnt() is defined as returning 'int' but always returns 0.
Callers assume simple_set_mnt() never fails and don't properly cleanup if
it were to _ever_ fail.  For instance, get_sb_single() and get_sb_nodev()
should:

        up_write(sb-&gt;s_unmount);
        deactivate_super(sb);

if simple_set_mnt() fails.

Since simple_set_mnt() never fails, would be cleaner if it did not
return anything.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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simple_set_mnt() is defined as returning 'int' but always returns 0.
Callers assume simple_set_mnt() never fails and don't properly cleanup if
it were to _ever_ fail.  For instance, get_sb_single() and get_sb_nodev()
should:

        up_write(sb-&gt;s_unmount);
        deactivate_super(sb);

if simple_set_mnt() fails.

Since simple_set_mnt() never fails, would be cleaner if it did not
return anything.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu &lt;sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>constify dentry_operations: rest</title>
<updated>2009-03-27T18:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-20T06:02:22+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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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T02:32:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-06T02:32:06+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  inotify: fix type errors in interfaces
  fix breakage in reiserfs_new_inode()
  fix the treatment of jfs special inodes
  vfs: remove duplicate code in get_fs_type()
  add a vfs_fsync helper
  sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify
  zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
  inode-&gt;i_op is never NULL
  ntfs: don't NULL i_op
  isofs check for NULL -&gt;i_op in root directory is dead code
  affs: do not zero -&gt;i_op
  kill suid bit only for regular files
  vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  inotify: fix type errors in interfaces
  fix breakage in reiserfs_new_inode()
  fix the treatment of jfs special inodes
  vfs: remove duplicate code in get_fs_type()
  add a vfs_fsync helper
  sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify
  zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
  inode-&gt;i_op is never NULL
  ntfs: don't NULL i_op
  isofs check for NULL -&gt;i_op in root directory is dead code
  affs: do not zero -&gt;i_op
  kill suid bit only for regular files
  vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
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<title>zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation</title>
<updated>2009-01-05T16:54:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-09T14:34:39+00:00</published>
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... and don't bother in callers.  Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.

i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... and don't bother in callers.  Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.

i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix</title>
<updated>2009-01-04T21:33:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-04T20:00:53+00:00</published>
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With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.

The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).

This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
  untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
  just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
  logic.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.

The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).

This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
  untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
  just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
  logic.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: remove prepare_write/commit_write</title>
<updated>2008-10-30T18:38:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-29T21:00:55+00:00</published>
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Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.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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Nothing uses prepare_write or commit_write. Remove them from the tree
completely.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: schedule simple_prepare_write() for unexporting]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.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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