linux.git/fs/mount.h, branch v3.17

death to mnt_pinned

2014-08-07T18:40:09+00:00

Rather than playing silly buggers with vfsmount refcounts, just have
acct_on() ask fs/namespace.c for internal clone of file->f_path.mnt
and replace it with said clone.  Then attach the pin to original
vfsmount.  Voila - the clone will be alive until the file gets closed,
making sure that underlying superblock remains active, etc., and
we can drop the original vfsmount, so that it's not kept busy.
If the file lives until the final mntput of the original vfsmount,
we'll notice that there's an fs_pin (one in bsd_acct_struct that
holds that file) and mnt_pin_kill() will take it out.  Since
->kill() is synchronous, we won't proceed past that point until
these files are closed (and private clones of our vfsmount are
gone), so we get the same ordering warranties we used to get.

mnt_pin()/mnt_unpin()/->mnt_pinned is gone now, and good riddance -
it never became usable outside of kernel/acct.c (and racy wrt
umount even there).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

acct: get rid of acct_list

2014-08-07T18:40:08+00:00

Put these suckers on per-vfsmount and per-superblock lists instead.
Note: right now it's still acct_lock for everything, but that's
going to change.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

reduce m_start() cost...

2014-04-02T03:19:09+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch mnt_hash to hlist

2014-03-30T23:18:51+00:00

fixes RCU bug - walking through hlist is safe in face of element moves,
since it's self-terminating.  Cyclic lists are not - if we end up jumping
to another hash chain, we'll loop infinitely without ever hitting the
original list head.

[fix for dumb braino folded]

Spotted by: Max Kellermann 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

resizable namespace.c hashes

2014-03-30T23:18:49+00:00

* switch allocation to alloc_large_system_hash()
* make sizes overridable by boot parameters (mhash_entries=, mphash_entries=)
* switch mountpoint_hashtable from list_head to hlist_head

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error.

2014-01-26T13:26:42+00:00

A bug was introduced with the is_mounted helper function in
commit f7a99c5b7c8bd3d3f533c8b38274e33f3da9096e
Author: Al Viro 
Date:   Sat Jun 9 00:59:08 2012 -0400

    get rid of ->mnt_longterm

    it's enough to set ->mnt_ns of internal vfsmounts to something
    distinct from all struct mnt_namespace out there; then we can
    just use the check for ->mnt_ns != NULL in the fast path of
    mntput_no_expire()

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro 

The intent was to test if the real_mount(vfsmount)->mnt_ns was
NULL_OR_ERR but the code is actually testing real_mount(vfsmount)
and always returning true.

The result is d_absolute_path returning paths it should be hiding.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

RCU'd vfsmounts

2013-11-09T05:16:19+00:00

* RCU-delayed freeing of vfsmounts
* vfsmount_lock replaced with a seqlock (mount_lock)
* sequence number from mount_lock is stored in nameidata->m_seq and
used when we exit RCU mode
* new vfsmount flag - MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT.  Set by umount_tree() when its
caller knows that vfsmount will have no surviving references.
* synchronize_rcu() done between unlocking namespace_sem in namespace_unlock()
and doing pending mntput().
* new helper: legitimize_mnt(mnt, seq).  Checks the mount_lock sequence
number against seq, then grabs reference to mnt.  Then it rechecks mount_lock
again to close the race and either returns success or drops the reference it
has acquired.  The subtle point is that in case of MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT we can
simply decrement the refcount and sod off - aforementioned synchronize_rcu()
makes sure that final mntput() won't come until we leave RCU mode.  We need
that, since we don't want to end up with some lazy pathwalk racing with
umount() and stealing the final mntput() from it - caller of umount() may
expect it to return only once the fs is shut down and we don't want to break
that.  In other cases (i.e. with MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT absent) we have to do
full-blown mntput() in case of mount_lock sequence number mismatch happening
just as we'd grabbed the reference, but in those cases we won't be stealing
the final mntput() from anything that would care.
* mntput_no_expire() doesn't lock anything on the fast path now.  Incidentally,
SMP and UP cases are handled the same way - no ifdefs there.
* normal pathname resolution does *not* do any writes to mount_lock.  It does,
of course, bump the refcounts of vfsmount and dentry in the very end, but that's
it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

split __lookup_mnt() in two functions

2013-10-25T03:35:00+00:00

Instead of passing the direction as argument (and checking it on every
step through the hash chain), just have separate __lookup_mnt() and
__lookup_mnt_last().  And use the standard iterators...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helpers: lock_mount_hash/unlock_mount_hash

2013-10-25T03:34:59+00:00

aka br_write_{lock,unlock} of vfsmount_lock.  Inlines in fs/mount.h,
vfsmount_lock extern moved over there as well.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

namespace.c: get rid of mnt_ghosts

2013-10-25T03:34:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro