linux.git/fs/namespace.c, branch v3.1

VFS: Fix the remaining automounter semantics regressions

2011-09-27T02:16:46+00:00

The concensus seems to be that system calls such as stat() etc should
not trigger an automount.  Neither should the l* versions.

This patch therefore adds a LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag to tag those lookups
that _should_ trigger an automount on the last path element.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
[ Edited to leave out the cases that are already covered by LOOKUP_OPEN,
  LOOKUP_DIRECTORY and LOOKUP_CREATE - all of which also fundamentally
  force automounting for their own reasons   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VFS : mount lock scalability for internal mounts

2011-07-24T14:08:32+00:00

For a number of file systems that don't have a mount point (e.g. sockfs
and pipefs), they are not marked as long term. Therefore in
mntput_no_expire, all locks in vfs_mount lock are taken instead of just
local cpu's lock to aggregate reference counts when we release
reference to file objects.  In fact, only local lock need to have been
taken to update ref counts as these file systems are in no danger of
going away until we are ready to unregister them.

The attached patch marks file systems using kern_mount without
mount point as long term.  The contentions of vfs_mount lock
is now eliminated.  Before un-registering such file system,
kern_unmount should be called to remove the long term flag and
make the mount point ready to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: seq_file - add event counter to simplify poll() support

2011-07-21T00:47:50+00:00

Moving the event counter into the dynamically allocated 'struc seq_file'
allows poll() support without the need to allocate its own tracking
structure.

All current users are switched over to use the new counter.

Requested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: NeilBrown 
Tested-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs/namespace.c: bound mount propagation fix

2011-05-26T11:26:44+00:00

This issue was discovered by users of busybox.  And the bug is actual for
busybox users, I don't know how it affects others.  Apparently, mount is
called with and without MS_SILENT, and this affects mount() behaviour.
But MS_SILENT is only supposed to affect kernel logging verbosity.

The following script was run in an empty test directory:

mkdir -p mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2
touch mount.dir/a mount.dir/b
mount -vv --bind         mount.shared1 mount.shared1
mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared1
mount -vv --bind         mount.shared2 mount.shared2
mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared2
mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared1
mount -vv --bind mount.dir     mount.shared2
ls -R mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2
umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null
umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null
umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null
rm -f mount.dir/a mount.dir/b mount.dir/c
rmdir mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2

mount -vv was used to show the mount() call arguments and result.
Output shows that flag argument has 0x00008000 = MS_SILENT bit:

mount: mount('mount.shared1','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0
mount: mount('','mount.shared1','',0x0010c000,''):0
mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0
mount: mount('','mount.shared2','',0x0010c000,''):0
mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0
mount: mount('mount.dir','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0
mount.dir:
a
b

mount.shared1:

mount.shared2:
a
b

After adding --loud option to remove MS_SILENT bit from just one mount cmd:

mkdir -p mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2
touch mount.dir/a mount.dir/b
mount -vv --bind         mount.shared1 mount.shared1 2>&1
mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared1               2>&1
mount -vv --bind         mount.shared2 mount.shared2 2>&1
mount -vv --loud --make-rshared mount.shared2               2>&1  # <-HERE
mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared1         2>&1
mount -vv --bind mount.dir     mount.shared2         2>&1
ls -R mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2      2>&1
umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null
umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null
umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null
rm -f mount.dir/a mount.dir/b mount.dir/c
rmdir mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2

The result is different now - look closely at mount.shared1 directory listing.
Now it does show files 'a' and 'b':

mount: mount('mount.shared1','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0
mount: mount('','mount.shared1','',0x0010c000,''):0
mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0
mount: mount('','mount.shared2','',0x00104000,''):0
mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0
mount: mount('mount.dir','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0

mount.dir:
a
b

mount.shared1:
a
b

mount.shared2:
a
b

The analysis shows that MS_SILENT flag which is ON by default in any
busybox-> mount operations cames to flags_to_propagation_type function and
causes the error return while is_power_of_2 checking because the function
expects only one bit set.  This doesn't allow to do busybox->mount with
any --make-[r]shared, --make-[r]private etc options.

Moreover, the recently added flags_to_propagation_type() function doesn't
allow us to do such operations as --make-[r]private --make-[r]shared etc.
when MS_SILENT is on.  The idea or clearing the MS_SILENT flag came from
to Denys Vlasenko.

Signed-off-by: Roman Borisov 
Reported-by: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Chuck Ebbert 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Revert "vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc//mountinfo"

2011-04-12T20:35:56+00:00

This reverts commit 93f1c20bc8cdb757be50566eff88d65c3b26881f.

It turns out that libmount misparses it because it adds a '-' character
in the uuid string, which libmount then incorrectly confuses with the
separator string (" - ") at the end of all the optional arguments.

Upstream libmount (in the util-linux tree) has been fixed, but until
that fix actually percolates up to users, we'd better not expose this
change in the kernel.

Let's revisit this later (possibly by exposing the UUID without any '-'
characters in it, avoiding the user-space bug).

Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Karel Zak 
Cc: Ram Pai 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Eric Sandeen 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: use appropriate printk priority levels

2011-03-23T00:44:10+00:00

printk()s without a priority level default to KERN_WARNING.  To reduce
noise at KERN_WARNING, this patch set the priority level appriopriately
for unleveled printks()s.  This should be useful to folks that look at
dmesg warnings closely.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

change the locking order for namespace_sem

2011-03-18T12:55:38+00:00

Have it nested inside ->i_mutex.  Instead of using follow_down()
under namespace_sem, followed by grabbing i_mutex and checking that
mountpoint to be is not dead, do the following:
	grab i_mutex
	check that it's not dead
	grab namespace_sem
	see if anything is mounted there
	if not, we've won
	otherwise
		drop locks
		put_path on what we had
		replace with what's mounted
		retry everything with new mountpoint to be

New helper (lock_mount()) does that.  do_add_mount(), do_move_mount(),
do_loopback() and pivot_root() switched to it; in case of the last
two that eliminates a race we used to have - original code didn't
do follow_down().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fix deadlock in pivot_root()

2011-03-18T12:54:59+00:00

Don't hold vfsmount_lock over the loop traversing ->mnt_parent;
do check_mnt(new.mnt) under namespace_sem instead; combined with
namespace_sem held over all that code it'll guarantee the stability
of ->mnt_parent chain all the way to the root.

Doing check_mnt() outside of namespace_sem in case of pivot_root()
is wrong anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: split off vfsmount-related parts of vfs_kern_mount()

2011-03-18T02:10:41+00:00

new function: mount_fs().  Does all work done by vfs_kern_mount()
except the allocation and filling of vfsmount; returns root dentry
or ERR_PTR().

vfs_kern_mount() switched to using it and taken to fs/namespace.c,
along with its wrappers.

alloc_vfsmnt()/free_vfsmnt() made static.

functions in namespace.c slightly reordered.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

kill simple_set_mnt()

2011-03-18T01:31:32+00:00

not needed anymore, since all users (->get_sb() instances) are gone.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro