linux.git/fs/proc, branch v3.9-rc2

proc: Use nd_jump_link in proc_ns_follow_link

2013-03-09T08:14:45+00:00

Update proc_ns_follow_link to use nd_jump_link instead of just
manually updating nd.path.dentry.

This fixes the BUG_ON(nd->inode != parent->d_inode) reported by Dave
Jones and reproduced trivially with mkdir /proc/self/ns/uts/a.

Sigh it looks like the VFS change to require use of nd_jump_link
happend while proc_ns_follow_link was baking and since the common case
of proc_ns_follow_link continued to work without problems the need for
making this change was overlooked.

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

fs/proc/vmcore.c: put if tests in the top of the while loop to reduce duplication

2013-02-28T03:10:11+00:00

In read_vmcore() two `if' tests are duplicated.  Change the position of
them could reduce the duplication.  This change does not affect the
behaviour of the function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid `if (foo = bar)' thing, use min_t()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/max_t/min_t/]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/proc: clean up printks

2013-02-28T03:10:11+00:00

- use pr_foo() throughout

- remove a couple of duplicated KERN_WARNINGs, via WARN(KERN_WARNING "...")

- nuke a few warnings which I've never seen happen, ever.

Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

coredump: remove redundant defines for dumpable states

2013-02-28T03:10:11+00:00

The existing SUID_DUMP_* defines duplicate the newer SUID_DUMPABLE_*
defines introduced in 54b501992dd2 ("coredump: warn about unsafe
suid_dumpable / core_pattern combo").  Remove the new ones, and use the
prior values instead.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reported-by: Chen Gang 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Doug Ledford 
Cc: Serge Hallyn 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00

Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...

saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions

2013-02-26T07:46:14+00:00

Make it drop the pde in *all* cases when no new reference to it is
put into an inode - both when an inode had already been set up
(as we were already doing) and when inode allocation has failed.
Makes for simpler logics in callers...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()

2013-02-26T07:46:14+00:00

If proc_get_inode() succeeded, but d_make_root() failed, pde_put() for
proc_root will be called twice: the first time due to iput() called from
d_make_root() and the second time directly in the end of
proc_fill_super().

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM

2013-02-26T07:46:14+00:00

According to SUSv3:

[EACCES] Permission denied. An attempt was made to access a file in a way
forbidden by its file access permissions.

[EPERM] Operation not permitted. An attempt was made to perform an operation
limited to processes with appropriate privileges or to the owner of a file
or other resource.

So -EPERM should be returned if capability checks fails.

Strictly speaking this is an API change since the error code user sees is
altered.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Hongjiang 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse 
Acked-by: Ian Kent 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances

2013-02-26T07:46:07+00:00

* calling conventions change - ERR_PTR() is returned on ->d_hash() errors;
NULL is just for dcache miss now.
* exported, open-coded instances in ncpfs and cifs converted.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

swap: make each swap partition have one address_space

2013-02-24T01:50:17+00:00

When I use several fast SSD to do swap, swapper_space.tree_lock is
heavily contended.  This makes each swap partition have one
address_space to reduce the lock contention.  There is an array of
address_space for swap.  The swap entry type is the index to the array.

In my test with 3 SSD, this increases the swapout throughput 20%.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert unneeded change to  __add_to_swap_cache]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds