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<title>linux.git/fs/namespace.c, branch v3.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>switch mnt_hash to hlist</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T01:10:51+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;mk@cm4all.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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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 &lt;mk@cm4all.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>don't bother with propagate_mnt() unless the target is shared</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T14:14:08+00:00</published>
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If the dest_mnt is not shared, propagate_mnt() does nothing -
there's no mounts to propagate to and thus no copies to create.
Might as well don't bother calling it in that case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If the dest_mnt is not shared, propagate_mnt() does nothing -
there's no mounts to propagate to and thus no copies to create.
Might as well don't bother calling it in that case.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>keep shadowed vfsmounts together</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-21T00:34:43+00:00</published>
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preparation to switching mnt_hash to hlist

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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preparation to switching mnt_hash to hlist

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>resizable namespace.c hashes</title>
<updated>2014-03-30T23:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-28T18:46:44+00:00</published>
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* 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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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* 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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2014-01-20T23:49:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-20T23:49:44+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.

  There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
  allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
  attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
  removal as needed / unneeded, etc)

  This is primarily being done for the cgroups filesystem, but the goal
  is to also move debugfs to it when it is ready, solving all of the
  known issues in that filesystem as well.  The code isn't completed
  yet, but all should be stable now (there is a big section that was
  reverted due to problems found when testing)

  There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
  allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be
  using soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier)

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (113 commits)
  kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation
  kernfs: add struct dentry declaration in kernfs.h
  kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()
  Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"
  Revert "kernfs: replace kernfs_node-&gt;u.completion with kernfs_root-&gt;deactivate_waitq"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_ACTIVE_REF and add kernfs_lockdep()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_REMOVED"
  Revert "kernfs: restructure removal path to fix possible premature return"
  Revert "kernfs: invoke kernfs_unmap_bin_file() directly from __kernfs_remove()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt"
  Revert "kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is deactivated but not removed"
  Revert "kernfs: implement kernfs_{de|re}activate[_self]()"
  Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"
  Revert "pci: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "scsi: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "s390: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()"
  kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
  drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems
  ...
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Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core and sysfs patch set for 3.14-rc1.

  There's a lot of work here moving sysfs logic out into a "kernfs" to
  allow other subsystems to also have a virtual filesystem with the same
  attributes of sysfs (handle device disconnect, dynamic creation /
  removal as needed / unneeded, etc)

  This is primarily being done for the cgroups filesystem, but the goal
  is to also move debugfs to it when it is ready, solving all of the
  known issues in that filesystem as well.  The code isn't completed
  yet, but all should be stable now (there is a big section that was
  reverted due to problems found when testing)

  There's also some other smaller fixes, and a driver core addition that
  allows for a "collection" of objects, that the DRM people will be
  using soon (it's in this tree to make merges after -rc1 easier)

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (113 commits)
  kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation
  kernfs: add struct dentry declaration in kernfs.h
  kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()
  Revert "kernfs: fix get_active failure handling in kernfs_seq_*()"
  Revert "kernfs: replace kernfs_node-&gt;u.completion with kernfs_root-&gt;deactivate_waitq"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_ACTIVE_REF and add kernfs_lockdep()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove KERNFS_REMOVED"
  Revert "kernfs: restructure removal path to fix possible premature return"
  Revert "kernfs: invoke kernfs_unmap_bin_file() directly from __kernfs_remove()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove kernfs_addrm_cxt"
  Revert "kernfs: make kernfs_get_active() block if the node is deactivated but not removed"
  Revert "kernfs: implement kernfs_{de|re}activate[_self]()"
  Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"
  Revert "pci: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "scsi: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "s390: use device_remove_file_self() instead of device_schedule_callback()"
  Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
  Revert "kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()"
  kernfs: remove unnecessary NULL check in __kernfs_remove()
  drivers/base: provide an infrastructure for componentised subsystems
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sysfs, kernfs: prepare mount path for kernfs</title>
<updated>2013-11-30T02:16:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-28T19:54:43+00:00</published>
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We're in the process of separating out core sysfs functionality into
kernfs which will deal with sysfs_dirents directly.  This patch
rearranges mount path so that the kernfs and sysfs parts are separate.

* As sysfs_super_info won't be visible outside kernfs proper,
  kernfs_super_ns() is added to allow kernfs users to access a
  super_block's namespace tag.

* Generic mount operation is separated out into kernfs_mount_ns().
  sysfs_mount() now just performs sysfs-specific permission check,
  acquires namespace tag, and invokes kernfs_mount_ns().

* Generic superblock release is separated out into kernfs_kill_sb()
  which can be used directly as file_system_type-&gt;kill_sb().  As sysfs
  needs to put the namespace tag, sysfs_kill_sb() wraps
  kernfs_kill_sb() with ns tag put.

* sysfs_dir_cachep init and sysfs_inode_init() are separated out into
  kernfs_init().  kernfs_init() uses only small amount of memory and
  trying to handle and propagate kernfs_init() failure doesn't make
  much sense.  Use SLAB_PANIC for sysfs_dir_cachep and make
  sysfs_inode_init() panic on failure.

  After this change, kernfs_init() should be called before
  sysfs_init(), fs/namespace.c::mnt_init() modified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We're in the process of separating out core sysfs functionality into
kernfs which will deal with sysfs_dirents directly.  This patch
rearranges mount path so that the kernfs and sysfs parts are separate.

* As sysfs_super_info won't be visible outside kernfs proper,
  kernfs_super_ns() is added to allow kernfs users to access a
  super_block's namespace tag.

* Generic mount operation is separated out into kernfs_mount_ns().
  sysfs_mount() now just performs sysfs-specific permission check,
  acquires namespace tag, and invokes kernfs_mount_ns().

* Generic superblock release is separated out into kernfs_kill_sb()
  which can be used directly as file_system_type-&gt;kill_sb().  As sysfs
  needs to put the namespace tag, sysfs_kill_sb() wraps
  kernfs_kill_sb() with ns tag put.

* sysfs_dir_cachep init and sysfs_inode_init() are separated out into
  kernfs_init().  kernfs_init() uses only small amount of memory and
  trying to handle and propagate kernfs_init() failure doesn't make
  much sense.  Use SLAB_PANIC for sysfs_dir_cachep and make
  sysfs_inode_init() panic on failure.

  After this change, kernfs_init() should be called before
  sysfs_init(), fs/namespace.c::mnt_init() modified accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Fix a regression in mounting proc</title>
<updated>2013-11-27T04:54:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-15T05:22:25+00:00</published>
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Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt; reported that commit
e51db73532955dc5eaba4235e62b74b460709d5b
userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted
caused a regression on mounting a new instance of proc in a mount
namespace created with user namespace privileges, when binfmt_misc
is mounted on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc.

This is an unintended regression caused by the absolutely bogus empty
directory check in fs_fully_visible.  The check fs_fully_visible replaced
didn't even bother to attempt to verify proc was fully visible and
hiding proc files with any kind of mount is rare.  So for now fix
the userspace regression by allowing directory with nlink == 1
as /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc has.

I will have a better patch but it is not stable material, or
last minute kernel material.  So it will have to wait.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt; reported that commit
e51db73532955dc5eaba4235e62b74b460709d5b
userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted
caused a regression on mounting a new instance of proc in a mount
namespace created with user namespace privileges, when binfmt_misc
is mounted on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc.

This is an unintended regression caused by the absolutely bogus empty
directory check in fs_fully_visible.  The check fs_fully_visible replaced
didn't even bother to attempt to verify proc was fully visible and
hiding proc files with any kind of mount is rare.  So for now fix
the userspace regression by allowing directory with nlink == 1
as /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc has.

I will have a better patch but it is not stable material, or
last minute kernel material.  So it will have to wait.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Tested-by: Gao feng &lt;gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RCU'd vfsmounts</title>
<updated>2013-11-09T05:16:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-30T02:06:07+00:00</published>
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* RCU-delayed freeing of vfsmounts
* vfsmount_lock replaced with a seqlock (mount_lock)
* sequence number from mount_lock is stored in nameidata-&gt;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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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* RCU-delayed freeing of vfsmounts
* vfsmount_lock replaced with a seqlock (mount_lock)
* sequence number from mount_lock is stored in nameidata-&gt;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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>split __lookup_mnt() in two functions</title>
<updated>2013-10-25T03:35:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-01T20:11:26+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>new helpers: lock_mount_hash/unlock_mount_hash</title>
<updated>2013-10-25T03:34:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-29T15:24:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=719ea2fbb553ab3f61a174a4b5861289dcc46cb1'/>
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<content type='text'>
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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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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 &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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