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2014-04-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this window. Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter work. There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having (mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into mainline and with some I want more testing. This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to usual beating. BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false positive, might be a real regression..." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits) missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses" cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev() ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure kill generic_file_buffered_write() ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write() export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write() generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write() kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write() lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg() constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg() ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg() take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c process_vm_access: tidy up a bit ...
2014-04-04Merge branch 'locks-3.15' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull file locking updates from Jeff Layton: "Highlights: - maintainership change for fs/locks.c. Willy's not interested in maintaining it these days, and is OK with Bruce and I taking it. - fix for open vs setlease race that Al ID'ed - cleanup and consolidation of file locking code - eliminate unneeded BUG() call - merge of file-private lock implementation" * 'locks-3.15' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux: locks: make locks_mandatory_area check for file-private locks locks: fix locks_mandatory_locked to respect file-private locks locks: require that flock->l_pid be set to 0 for file-private locks locks: add new fcntl cmd values for handling file private locks locks: skip deadlock detection on FL_FILE_PVT locks locks: pass the cmd value to fcntl_getlk/getlk64 locks: report l_pid as -1 for FL_FILE_PVT locks locks: make /proc/locks show IS_FILE_PVT locks as type "FLPVT" locks: rename locks_remove_flock to locks_remove_file locks: consolidate checks for compatible filp->f_mode values in setlk handlers locks: fix posix lock range overflow handling locks: eliminate BUG() call when there's an unexpected lock on file close locks: add __acquires and __releases annotations to locks_start and locks_stop locks: remove "inline" qualifier from fl_link manipulation functions locks: clean up comment typo locks: close potential race between setlease and open MAINTAINERS: update entry for fs/locks.c
2014-04-01get rid of files_defer_init()Al Viro
the only thing it's doing these days is calculation of upper limit for fs.nr_open sysctl and that can be done statically Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-04-01mark struct file that had write access grabbed by open()Al Viro
new flag in ->f_mode - FMODE_WRITER. Set by do_dentry_open() in case when it has grabbed write access, checked by __fput() to decide whether it wants to drop the sucker. Allows to stop bothering with mnt_clone_write() in alloc_file(), along with fewer special_file() checks. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-04-01get rid of DEBUG_WRITECOUNTAl Viro
it only makes control flow in __fput() and friends more convoluted. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-04-01don't bother with {get,put}_write_access() on non-regular filesAl Viro
it's pointless and actually leads to wrong behaviour in at least one moderately convoluted case (pipe(), close one end, try to get to another via /proc/*/fd and run into ETXTBUSY). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-03-31locks: rename locks_remove_flock to locks_remove_fileJeff Layton
This function currently removes leases in addition to flock locks and in a later patch we'll have it deal with file-private locks too. Rename it to locks_remove_file to indicate that it removes locks that are associated with a particular struct file, and not just flock locks. Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2014-03-10vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIXLinus Torvalds
Our write() system call has always been atomic in the sense that you get the expected thread-safe contiguous write, but we haven't actually guaranteed that concurrent writes are serialized wrt f_pos accesses, so threads (or processes) that share a file descriptor and use "write()" concurrently would quite likely overwrite each others data. This violates POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4 Section XSI 2.9.7 that says: "2.9.7 Thread Interactions with Regular File Operations All of the following functions shall be atomic with respect to each other in the effects specified in POSIX.1-2008 when they operate on regular files or symbolic links: [...]" and one of the effects is the file position update. This unprotected file position behavior is not new behavior, and nobody has ever cared. Until now. Yongzhi Pan reported unexpected behavior to Michael Kerrisk that was due to this. This resolves the issue with a f_pos-specific lock that is taken by read/write/lseek on file descriptors that may be shared across threads or processes. Reported-by: Yongzhi Pan <panyongzhi@gmail.com> Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-11-13Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "All kinds of stuff this time around; some more notable parts: - RCU'd vfsmounts handling - new primitives for coredump handling - files_lock is gone - Bruce's delegations handling series - exportfs fixes plus misc stuff all over the place" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (101 commits) ecryptfs: ->f_op is never NULL locks: break delegations on any attribute modification locks: break delegations on link locks: break delegations on rename locks: helper functions for delegation breaking locks: break delegations on unlink namei: minor vfs_unlink cleanup locks: implement delegations locks: introduce new FL_DELEG lock flag vfs: take i_mutex on renamed file vfs: rename I_MUTEX_QUOTA now that it's not used for quotas vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories vfs: pull ext4's double-i_mutex-locking into common code exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup exportfs: better variable name exportfs: move most of reconnect_path to helper function exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter exportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove exportfs: clear DISCONNECTED on all parents sooner exportfs: more detailed comment for path_reconnect ...
2013-11-09get rid of s_files and files_lockAl Viro
The only thing we need it for is alt-sysrq-r (emergency remount r/o) and these days we can do just as well without going through the list of files. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-24file->f_op is never NULL...Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-20nfsd regression since delayed fput()Al Viro
Background: nfsd v[23] had throughput regression since delayed fput went in; every read or write ends up doing fput() and we get a pair of extra context switches out of that (plus quite a bit of work in queue_work itselfi, apparently). Use of schedule_delayed_work() gives it a chance to accumulate a bit before we do __fput() on all of them. I'm not too happy about that solution, but... on at least one real-world setup it reverts about 10% throughput loss we got from switch to delayed fput. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-09-11fs/file_table.c:fput(): make comment more truthfulAndrew Morton
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-03only regular files with FMODE_WRITE need to be on s_filesAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-13fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_headOleg Nesterov
fput() and delayed_fput() can use llist and avoid the locking. This is unlikely path, it is not that this change can improve the performance, but this way the code looks simpler. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-13fs/file_table.c:fput(): add commentAndrew Morton
A missed update to "fput: task_work_add() can fail if the caller has passed exit_task_work()". Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29Replace a bunch of file->dentry->d_inode refs with file_inode()David Howells
Replace a bunch of file->dentry->d_inode refs with file_inode(). In __fput(), use file->f_inode instead so as not to be affected by any tricks that file_inode() might grow. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-15fput: task_work_add() can fail if the caller has passed exit_task_work()Oleg Nesterov
fput() assumes that it can't be called after exit_task_work() but this is not true, for example free_ipc_ns()->shm_destroy() can do this. In this case fput() silently leaks the file. Change it to fallback to delayed_fput_work if task_work_add() fails. The patch looks complicated but it is not, it changes the code from if (PF_KTHREAD) { schedule_work(...); return; } task_work_add(...) to if (!PF_KTHREAD) { if (!task_work_add(...)) return; /* fallback */ } schedule_work(...); As for shm_destroy() in particular, we could make another fix but I think this change makes sense anyway. There could be another similar user, it is not safe to assume that task_work_add() can't fail. Reported-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-01cache the value of file_inode() in struct fileAl Viro
Note that this thing does *not* contribute to inode refcount; it's pinned down by dentry. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22fs: Preserve error code in get_empty_filp(), part 2Anatol Pomozov
Allocating a file structure in function get_empty_filp() might fail because of several reasons: - not enough memory for file structures - operation is not allowed - user is over its limit Currently the function returns NULL in all cases and we loose the exact reason of the error. All callers of get_empty_filp() assume that the function can fail with ENFILE only. Return error through pointer. Change all callers to preserve this error code. [AV: cleaned up a bit, carved the get_empty_filp() part out into a separate commit (things remaining here deal with alloc_file()), removed pipe(2) behaviour change] Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22propagate error from get_empty_filp() to its callersAl Viro
Based on parts from Anatol's patch (the rest is the next commit). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22new helper: file_inode(file)Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-12-20fs: Fix imbalance in freeze protection in mark_files_ro()Jan Kara
File descriptors (even those for writing) do not hold freeze protection. Thus mark_files_ro() must call __mnt_drop_write() to only drop protection against remount read-only. Calling mnt_drop_write_file() as we do now results in: [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ] 3.7.0-rc6-00028-g88e75b6 #101 Not tainted ------------------------------------- kworker/1:2/79 is trying to release lock (sb_writers) at: [<ffffffff811b33b4>] mnt_drop_write+0x24/0x30 but there are no more locks to release! Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-10lglock: add DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK()Lai Jiangshan
When the lglock doesn't need to be exported we can use DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK(). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-02Merge branch 'next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "Highlights: - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline attacks - Integrity: add digital signature verification - Simple stacking of Yama with other LSMs (per LSS discussions) - IBM vTPM support on ppc64 - Add new driver for Infineon I2C TIS TPM - Smack: add rule revocation for subject labels" Fixed conflicts with the user namespace support in kernel/auditsc.c and security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (39 commits) Documentation: Update git repository URL for Smack userland tools ima: change flags container data type Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix Smack: implement revoking all rules for a subject label Smack: remove task_wait() hook. ima: audit log hashes ima: generic IMA action flag handling ima: rename ima_must_appraise_or_measure audit: export audit_log_task_info tpm: fix tpm_acpi sparse warning on different address spaces samples/seccomp: fix 31 bit build on s390 ima: digital signature verification support ima: add support for different security.ima data types ima: add ima_inode_setxattr/removexattr function and calls ima: add inode_post_setattr call ima: replace iint spinblock with rwlock/read_lock ima: allocating iint improvements ima: add appraise action keywords and default rules ima: integrity appraisal extension vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the file ...
2012-09-26take fget() and friends to fs/file.cAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-07vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the fileMimi Zohar
ima_file_free(), called on __fput(), currently flags files that have changed, so that the file is re-measured. For appraising a files's integrity, the file's hash must be re-calculated and stored in the 'security.ima' xattr to reflect any changes. This patch moves the ima_file_free() call to before releasing the file in preparation of ima-appraisal measuring the file and updating the 'security.ima' xattr. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
2012-07-31fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write()Jan Kara
Most of places where we want freeze protection coincides with the places where we also have remount-ro protection. So make mnt_want_write() and mnt_drop_write() (and their _file alternative) prevent freezing as well. For the few cases that are really interested only in remount-ro protection provide new function variants. BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421 Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@canonical.com> Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com> Tested-by: Massimo Morana <massimo.morana@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-29uninline file_free_rcu()Al Viro
What inline? Its only use is passing its address to call_rcu(), for fuck sake! Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22switch fput to task_work_addAl Viro
... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers (and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt). We are guaranteed that __fput() will be done before we return to userland (or exit). Note that for fput() from a kernel thread we get an async behaviour; it's almost always OK, but sometimes you might need to have __fput() completed before you do anything else. There are two mechanisms for that - a general barrier (flush_delayed_fput()) and explicit __fput_sync(). Both should be used with care (as was the case for fput() from kernel threads all along). See comments in fs/file_table.c for details. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14mark_files_ro(): don't bother with mntget/mntputAl Viro
mnt_drop_write_file() is safe under any lock Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-29brlocks/lglocks: API cleanupsAndi Kleen
lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros in lglock.h. But there's no reason to not just use common utility functions and put all the data into a common data structure. In preparation, this patch changes the API to look more like normal function calls with pointers, not magic macros. The patch is rather large because I move over all users in one go to keep it bisectable. This impacts the VFS somewhat in terms of lines changed. But no actual behaviour change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-29brlocks/lglocks: turn into functionsAndi Kleen
lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros in lglock.h. But there's no reason to not just use common utility functions and put all the data into a common data structure. Since there are at least two users it makes sense to share this code in a library. This is also easier maintainable than a macro forest. This will also make it later possible to dynamically allocate lglocks and also use them in modules (this would both still need some additional, but now straightforward, code) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20vfs: drop_file_write_access() made staticAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removesMiklos Szeredi
If there are any inodes on the super block that have been unlinked (i_nlink == 0) but have not yet been deleted then prevent the remounting the super block read-only. Reported-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: fix cdev leak on O_PATH final fput()
2011-03-16fix cdev leak on O_PATH final fput()Miklos Szeredi
__fput doesn't need a cdev_put() for O_PATH handles. Signed-off-by: mszeredi@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (33 commits) AppArmor: kill unused macros in lsm.c AppArmor: cleanup generated files correctly KEYS: Add an iovec version of KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE KEYS: Add a new keyctl op to reject a key with a specified error code KEYS: Add a key type op to permit the key description to be vetted KEYS: Add an RCU payload dereference macro AppArmor: Cleanup make file to remove cruft and make it easier to read SELinux: implement the new sb_remount LSM hook LSM: Pass -o remount options to the LSM SELinux: Compute SID for the newly created socket SELinux: Socket retains creator role and MLS attribute SELinux: Auto-generate security_is_socket_class TOMOYO: Fix memory leak upon file open. Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking" selinux: drop unused packet flow permissions selinux: Fix packet forwarding checks on postrouting selinux: Fix wrong checks for selinux_policycap_netpeer selinux: Fix check for xfrm selinux context algorithm ima: remove unnecessary call to ima_must_measure IMA: remove IMA imbalance checking ...
2011-03-15Allow passing O_PATH descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS datagramsAl Viro
Just need to make sure that AF_UNIX garbage collector won't confuse O_PATHed socket on filesystem for real AF_UNIX opened socket. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-15New kind of open files - "location only".Al Viro
New flag for open(2) - O_PATH. Semantics: * pathname is resolved, but the file itself is _NOT_ opened as far as filesystem is concerned. * almost all operations on the resulting descriptors shall fail with -EBADF. Exceptions are: 1) operations on descriptors themselves (i.e. close(), dup(), dup2(), dup3(), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, ...), fcntl(fd, F_GETFD), fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, ...)) 2) fcntl(fd, F_GETFL), for a common non-destructive way to check if descriptor is open 3) "dfd" arguments of ...at(2) syscalls, i.e. the starting points of pathname resolution * closing such descriptor does *NOT* affect dnotify or posix locks. * permissions are checked as usual along the way to file; no permission checks are applied to the file itself. Of course, giving such thing to syscall will result in permission checks (at the moment it means checking that starting point of ....at() is a directory and caller has exec permissions on it). fget() and fget_light() return NULL on such descriptors; use of fget_raw() and fget_raw_light() is needed to get them. That protects existing code from dealing with those things. There are two things still missing (they come in the next commits): one is handling of symlinks (right now we refuse to open them that way; see the next commit for semantics related to those) and another is descriptor passing via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-08Merge branch 'master'; commit 'v2.6.38-rc7' into nextJames Morris
2011-02-10IMA: maintain i_readcount in the VFS layerMimi Zohar
ima_counts_get() updated the readcount and invalidated the PCR, as necessary. Only update the i_readcount in the VFS layer. Move the PCR invalidation checks to ima_file_check(), where it belongs. Maintaining the i_readcount in the VFS layer, will allow other subsystems to use i_readcount. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2011-02-04CRED: Fix kernel panic upon security_file_alloc() failure.Tetsuo Handa
In get_empty_filp() since 2.6.29, file_free(f) is called with f->f_cred == NULL when security_file_alloc() returned an error. As a result, kernel will panic() due to put_cred(NULL) call within RCU callback. Fix this bug by assigning f->f_cred before calling security_file_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-17fs: Remove unlikely() from fget_light()Steven Rostedt
There's an unlikely() in fget_light() that assumes the file ref count will be 1. Running the annotate branch profiler on a desktop that is performing daily tasks (running firefox, evolution, xchat and is also part of a distcc farm), it shows that the ref count is not 1 that often. correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 1035099358 6209599193 85 fget_light file_table.c 315 Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-26fs: allow for more than 2^31 filesEric Dumazet
Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB system and found af_unix was overflowing a 32bit value : <quote> We were seeing a failure which prevented boot. The kernel was incapable of creating either a named pipe or unix domain socket. This comes down to a common kernel function called unix_create1() which does: atomic_inc(&unix_nr_socks); if (atomic_read(&unix_nr_socks) > 2 * get_max_files()) goto out; The function get_max_files() is a simple return of files_stat.max_files. files_stat.max_files is a signed integer and is computed in fs/file_table.c's files_init(). n = (mempages * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024)) / 10; files_stat.max_files = n; In our case, mempages (total_ram_pages) is approx 3,758,096,384 (0xe0000000). That leaves max_files at approximately 1,503,238,553. This causes 2 * get_max_files() to integer overflow. </quote> Fix is to let /proc/sys/fs/file-nr & /proc/sys/fs/file-max use long integers, and change af_unix to use an atomic_long_t instead of atomic_t. get_max_files() is changed to return an unsigned long. get_nr_files() is changed to return a long. unix_nr_socks is changed from atomic_t to atomic_long_t, while not strictly needed to address Robin problem. Before patch (on a 64bit kernel) : # echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max -18446744071562067968 After patch: # echo 2147483648 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max 2147483648 # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 704 0 2147483648 Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Tested-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-18fs: scale files_lockNick Piggin
fs: scale files_lock Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists, protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists (although this is very slow). One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list. However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N cachelines than with 1. A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case. Testing results: On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it. Booting: locks= 25049 cpu-hits= 23174 (92.5%) node-hits= 23945 (95.6%) kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%) dbench 64 locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%) So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time. It remains within the same node 95% of the time. Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile. throughput 2.6.34-rc2 24.5 +patch 24.9 us sys idle IO wait (in %) 2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25 +patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75 So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and slightly higher throughput. Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks. That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory accesses required so it will be slightly slower. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18fs: cleanup files_lock lockingNick Piggin
fs: cleanup files_lock locking Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-12Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e (and the accompanying commit c1e5c954020e "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at all). The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with f_count handling. Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11vfs: improve comment describing fget_light()Tony Battersby
Improve the description of fget_light(), which is currently incorrect about needing a prior refcnt (judging by the way it is actually used). Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>