linux.git/fs, branch v3.3-rc7

aio: fix the "too late munmap()" race

2012-03-10T02:59:59+00:00

Current code has put_ioctx() called asynchronously from aio_fput_routine();
that's done *after* we have killed the request that used to pin ioctx,
so there's nothing to stop io_destroy() waiting in wait_for_all_aios()
from progressing.  As the result, we can end up with async call of
put_ioctx() being the last one and possibly happening during exit_mmap()
or elf_core_dump(), neither of which expects stray munmap() being done
to them...

We do need to prevent _freeing_ ioctx until aio_fput_routine() is done
with that, but that's all we care about - neither io_destroy() nor
exit_aio() will progress past wait_for_all_aios() until aio_fput_routine()
does really_put_req(), so the ioctx teardown won't be done until then
and we don't care about the contents of ioctx past that point.

Since actual freeing of these suckers is RCU-delayed, we don't need to
bump ioctx refcount when request goes into list for async removal.
All we need is rcu_read_lock held just over the ->ctx_lock-protected
area in aio_fput_routine().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer 
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

aio: fix io_setup/io_destroy race

2012-03-10T02:59:59+00:00

Have ioctx_alloc() return an extra reference, so that caller would drop it
on success and not bother with re-grabbing it on failure exit.  The current
code is obviously broken - io_destroy() from another thread that managed
to guess the address io_setup() would've returned would free ioctx right
under us; gets especially interesting if aio_context_t * we pass to
io_setup() points to PROT_READ mapping, so put_user() fails and we end
up doing io_destroy() on kioctx another thread has just got freed...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise 
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2012-03-10T02:09:18+00:00

Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason:
 "I have two additional and btrfs fixes in my for-linus branch.  One is
  a casting error that leads to memory corruption on i386 during scrub,
  and the other fixes a corner case in the backref walking code (also
  triggered by scrub)."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
  Btrfs: fix casting error in scrub reada code
  btrfs: fix locking issues in find_parent_nodes()

Merge git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6

2012-03-07T00:55:50+00:00

Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French

* git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup
  CIFS: Fix mkdir/rmdir bug for the non-POSIX case

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch bomb)

2012-03-05T23:50:25+00:00

Merge the emailed seties of 19 patches from Andrew Morton

* akpm:
  rapidio/tsi721: fix queue wrapping bug in inbound doorbell handler
  memcg: fix mapcount check in move charge code for anonymous page
  mm: thp: fix BUG on mm->nr_ptes
  alpha: fix 32/64-bit bug in futex support
  memcg: fix GPF when cgroup removal races with last exit
  debugobjects: Fix selftest for static warnings
  floppy/scsi: fix setting of BIO flags
  memcg: fix deadlock by inverting lrucare nesting
  drivers/rtc/rtc-r9701.c: fix crash in r9701_remove()
  c2port: class_create() returns an ERR_PTR
  pps: class_create() returns an ERR_PTR, not NULL
  hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic
  vfork: kill PF_STARTING
  coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()
  vfork: make it killable
  vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()
  aio: wake up waiters when freeing unused kiocbs
  kprobes: return proper error code from register_kprobe()
  kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default

coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()

2012-03-05T23:49:42+00:00

Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs
complete_vfork_done().  zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with
the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set.

mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()

2012-03-05T23:49:42+00:00

No functional changes.

Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial helper,
complete_vfork_done().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

aio: wake up waiters when freeing unused kiocbs

2012-03-05T23:49:42+00:00

Bart Van Assche reported a hung fio process when either hot-removing
storage or when interrupting the fio process itself.  The (pruned) call
trace for the latter looks like so:

  fio             D 0000000000000001     0  6849   6848 0x00000004
   ffff880092541b88 0000000000000046 ffff880000000000 ffff88012fa11dc0
   ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8
   ffff880128b894d0 ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541b88 000000018106f24d
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x3f/0x60
    io_schedule+0x8f/0xd0
    wait_for_all_aios+0xc0/0x100
    exit_aio+0x55/0xc0
    mmput+0x2d/0x110
    exit_mm+0x10d/0x130
    do_exit+0x671/0x860
    do_group_exit+0x44/0xb0
    get_signal_to_deliver+0x218/0x5a0
    do_signal+0x65/0x700
    do_notify_resume+0x65/0x80
    int_signal+0x12/0x17

The problem lies with the allocation batching code.  It will
opportunistically allocate kiocbs, and then trim back the list of iocbs
when there is not enough room in the completion ring to hold all of the
events.

In the case above, what happens is that the pruning back of events ends
up freeing up the last active request and the context is marked as dead,
so it is thus responsible for waking up waiters.  Unfortunately, the
code does not check for this condition, so we end up with a hung task.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer 
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche 
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche 
Cc: 		[3.2.x only]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

aout: move setup_arg_pages() prior to reading/mapping the binary

2012-03-05T21:51:32+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: move dentry_cmp from to fs/dcache.c

2012-03-04T23:51:42+00:00

It's only used inside fs/dcache.c, and we're going to play games with it
for the word-at-a-time patches.  This time we really don't even want to
export it, because it really is an internal function to fs/dcache.c, and
has been since it was introduced.

Having it in that extremely hot header file (it's included in pretty
much everything, thanks to ) is a disaster for testing
different versions, and is utterly pointless.

We really should have some kind of header file diet thing, where we
figure out which parts of header files are really better off private and
only result in more expensive compiles.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds