linux.git/fs/open.c, branch v4.9

Merge tag 'xfs-reflink-for-linus-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs

2016-10-14T03:28:22+00:00

    < XFS has gained super CoW powers! >
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Pull XFS support for shared data extents from Dave Chinner:
 "This is the second part of the XFS updates for this merge cycle.  This
  pullreq contains the new shared data extents feature for XFS.

  Given the complexity and size of this change I am expecting - like the
  addition of reverse mapping last cycle - that there will be some
  follow-up bug fixes and cleanups around the -rc3 stage for issues that
  I'm sure will show up once the code hits a wider userbase.

  What it is:

  At the most basic level we are simply adding shared data extents to
  XFS - i.e. a single extent on disk can now have multiple owners. To do
  this we have to add new on-disk features to both track the shared
  extents and the number of times they've been shared. This is done by
  the new "refcount" btree that sits in every allocation group. When we
  share or unshare an extent, this tree gets updated.

  Along with this new tree, the reverse mapping tree needs to be updated
  to track each owner or a shared extent. This also needs to be updated
  ever share/unshare operation. These interactions at extent allocation
  and freeing time have complex ordering and recovery constraints, so
  there's a significant amount of new intent-based transaction code to
  ensure that operations are performed atomically from both the runtime
  and integrity/crash recovery perspectives.

  We also need to break sharing when writes hit a shared extent - this
  is where the new copy-on-write implementation comes in. We allocate
  new storage and copy the original data along with the overwrite data
  into the new location. We only do this for data as we don't share
  metadata at all - each inode has it's own metadata that tracks the
  shared data extents, the extents undergoing CoW and it's own private
  extents.

  Of course, being XFS, nothing is simple - we use delayed allocation
  for CoW similar to how we use it for normal writes. ENOSPC is a
  significant issue here - we build on the reservation code added in
  4.8-rc1 with the reverse mapping feature to ensure we don't get
  spurious ENOSPC issues part way through a CoW operation. These
  mechanisms also help minimise fragmentation due to repeated CoW
  operations. To further reduce fragmentation overhead, we've also
  introduced a CoW extent size hint, which indicates how large a region
  we should allocate when we execute a CoW operation.

  With all this functionality in place, we can hook up .copy_file_range,
  .clone_file_range and .dedupe_file_range and we gain all the
  capabilities of reflink and other vfs provided functionality that
  enable manipulation to shared extents. We also added a fallocate mode
  that explicitly unshares a range of a file, which we implemented as an
  explicit CoW of all the shared extents in a file.

  As such, it's a huge chunk of new functionality with new on-disk
  format features and internal infrastructure. It warns at mount time as
  an experimental feature and that it may eat data (as we do with all
  new on-disk features until they stabilise). We have not released
  userspace suport for it yet - userspace support currently requires
  download from Darrick's xfsprogs repo and build from source, so the
  access to this feature is really developer/tester only at this point.
  Initial userspace support will be released at the same time the kernel
  with this code in it is released.

  The new code causes 5-6 new failures with xfstests - these aren't
  serious functional failures but things the output of tests changing
  slightly due to perturbations in layouts, space usage, etc. OTOH,
  we've added 150+ new tests to xfstests that specifically exercise this
  new functionality so it's got far better test coverage than any
  functionality we've previously added to XFS.

  Darrick has done a pretty amazing job getting us to this stage, and
  special mention also needs to go to Christoph (review, testing,
  improvements and bug fixes) and Brian (caught several intricate bugs
  during review) for the effort they've also put in.

  Summary:

   - unshare range (FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE) support for fallocate

   - copy-on-write extent size hints (FS_XFLAG_COWEXTSIZE) for fsxattr
     interface

   - shared extent support for XFS

   - copy-on-write support for shared extents

   - copy_file_range support

   - clone_file_range support (implements reflink)

   - dedupe_file_range support

   - defrag support for reverse mapping enabled filesystems"

* tag 'xfs-reflink-for-linus-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs: (71 commits)
  xfs: convert COW blocks to real blocks before unwritten extent conversion
  xfs: rework refcount cow recovery error handling
  xfs: clear reflink flag if setting realtime flag
  xfs: fix error initialization
  xfs: fix label inaccuracies
  xfs: remove isize check from unshare operation
  xfs: reduce stack usage of _reflink_clear_inode_flag
  xfs: check inode reflink flag before calling reflink functions
  xfs: implement swapext for rmap filesystems
  xfs: refactor swapext code
  xfs: various swapext cleanups
  xfs: recognize the reflink feature bit
  xfs: simulate per-AG reservations being critically low
  xfs: don't mix reflink and DAX mode for now
  xfs: check for invalid inode reflink flags
  xfs: set a default CoW extent size of 32 blocks
  xfs: convert unwritten status of reverse mappings for shared files
  xfs: use interval query for rmap alloc operations on shared files
  xfs: add shared rmap map/unmap/convert log item types
  xfs: increase log reservations for reflink
  ...

block: implement (some of) fallocate for block devices

2016-10-11T22:06:30+00:00

After much discussion, it seems that the fallocate feature flag
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE maps nicely to SCSI WRITE SAME; and the feature
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE maps nicely to the devices that have been whitelisted
for zeroing SCSI UNMAP.  Punch still requires that FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE is
set.  A length that goes past the end of the device will be clamped to the
device size if KEEP_SIZE is set; or will return -EINVAL if not.  Both
start and length must be aligned to the device's logical block size.

Since the semantics of fallocate are fairly well established already, wire
up the two pieces.  The other fallocate variants (collapse range, insert
range, and allocate blocks) are not supported.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379992.22791.8849838163218235007.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: Martin K. Petersen 
Cc: Mike Snitzer  # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Hannes Reinecke 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: add a FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE mode to fallocate to unshare a range of blocks

2016-10-03T16:11:14+00:00

Add a new fallocate mode flag that explicitly unshares blocks on
filesystems that support such features.  The new flag can only
be used with an allocate-mode fallocate call.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong

vfs: do get_write_access() on upper layer of overlayfs

2016-09-16T10:44:21+00:00

The problem with writecount is: we want consistent handling of it for
underlying filesystems as well as overlayfs.  Making sure i_writecount is
correct on all layers is difficult.  Instead this patch makes sure that
when write access is acquired, it's always done on the underlying writable
layer (called the upper layer).  We must also make sure to look at the
writecount on this layer when checking for conflicting leases.

Open for write already updates the upper layer's writecount.  Leaving only
truncate.

For truncate copy up must happen before get_write_access() so that the
writecount is updated on the upper layer.  Problem with this is if
something fails after that, then copy-up was done needlessly.  E.g. if
break_lease() was interrupted.  Probably not a big deal in practice.

Another interesting case is if there's a denywrite on a lower file that is
then opened for write or truncated.  With this patch these will succeed,
which is somewhat counterintuitive.  But I think it's still acceptable,
considering that the copy-up does actually create a different file, so the
old, denywrite mapping won't be touched.

On non-overlayfs d_real() is an identity function and d_real_inode() is
equivalent to d_inode() so this patch doesn't change behavior in that case.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Acked-by: Jeff Layton 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"

locks: fix file locking on overlayfs

2016-09-16T10:44:20+00:00

This patch allows flock, posix locks, ofd locks and leases to work
correctly on overlayfs.

Instead of using the underlying inode for storing lock context use the
overlay inode.  This allows locks to be persistent across copy-up.

This is done by introducing locks_inode() helper and using it instead of
file_inode() to get the inode in locking code.  For non-overlayfs the two
are equivalent, except for an extra pointer dereference in locks_inode().

Since lock operations are in "struct file_operations" we must also make
sure not to call underlying filesystem's lock operations.  Introcude a
super block flag MS_NOREMOTELOCK to this effect.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Acked-by: Jeff Layton 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"

Merge tag 'binfmt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/binfmt_misc

2016-08-07T14:13:14+00:00

Pull binfmt_misc update from James Bottomley:
 "This update is to allow architecture emulation containers to function
  such that the emulation binary can be housed outside the container
  itself.  The container and fs parts both have acks from relevant
  experts.

  To use the new feature you have to add an F option to your binfmt_misc
  configuration"

From the docs:
 "The usual behaviour of binfmt_misc is to spawn the binary lazily when
  the misc format file is invoked.  However, this doesn't work very well
  in the face of mount namespaces and changeroots, so the F mode opens
  the binary as soon as the emulation is installed and uses the opened
  image to spawn the emulator, meaning it is always available once
  installed, regardless of how the environment changes"

* tag 'binfmt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/binfmt_misc:
  binfmt_misc: add F option description to documentation
  binfmt_misc: add persistent opened binary handler for containers
  fs: add filp_clone_open API

vfs: merge .d_select_inode() into .d_real()

2016-06-30T06:53:27+00:00

The two methods essentially do the same: find the real dentry/inode
belonging to an overlay dentry.  The difference is in the usage:

vfs_open() uses ->d_select_inode() and expects the function to perform
copy-up if necessary based on the open flags argument.

file_dentry() uses ->d_real() passing in the overlay dentry as well as the
underlying inode.

vfs_rename() uses ->d_select_inode() but passes zero flags.  ->d_real()
with a zero inode would have worked just as well here.

This patch merges the functionality of ->d_select_inode() into ->d_real()
by adding an 'open_flags' argument to the latter.

[Al Viro] Make the signature of d_real() match that of ->d_real() again.
And constify the inode argument, while we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

Merge branch 'work.const-path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2016-05-17T21:41:03+00:00

Pull 'struct path' constification update from Al Viro:
 "'struct path' is passed by reference to a bunch of Linux security
  methods; in theory, there's nothing to stop them from modifying the
  damn thing and LSM community being what it is, sooner or later some
  enterprising soul is going to decide that it's a good idea.

  Let's remove the temptation and constify all of those..."

* 'work.const-path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  constify ima_d_path()
  constify security_sb_pivotroot()
  constify security_path_chroot()
  constify security_path_{link,rename}
  apparmor: remove useless checks for NULL ->mnt
  constify security_path_{mkdir,mknod,symlink}
  constify security_path_{unlink,rmdir}
  apparmor: constify common_perm_...()
  apparmor: constify aa_path_link()
  apparmor: new helper - common_path_perm()
  constify chmod_common/security_path_chmod
  constify security_sb_mount()
  constify chown_common/security_path_chown
  tomoyo: constify assorted struct path *
  apparmor_path_truncate(): path->mnt is never NULL
  constify vfs_truncate()
  constify security_path_truncate()
  [apparmor] constify struct path * in a bunch of helpers

Merge branch 'ovl-fixes' into for-linus

2016-05-17T06:17:59+00:00

Backmerge to resolve a conflict in ovl_lookup_real();
"ovl_lookup_real(): use lookup_one_len_unlocked()" instead,
but it was too late in the cycle to rebase.

vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper

2016-05-11T03:55:01+00:00

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc:  # v4.2+