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2012-03-31untangling do_lookup() - expand the area under ->i_mutexAl Viro
keep holding ->i_mutex over revalidation parts Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31untangling do_lookup() - isolate !dentry stuff from the rest of it.Al Viro
Duplicate the revalidation-related parts into if (!dentry) branch. Next step will be to pull them under i_mutex. This and the next 8 commits are more or less a splitup of patch by Miklos; folks, when you are working with something that convoluted, carve your patches up into easily reviewed steps, especially when a lot of codepaths involved are rarely hit... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31vfs: move MAY_EXEC check from __lookup_hash()Miklos Szeredi
The only caller of __lookup_hash() that needs the exec permission check on parent is lookup_one_len(). All lookup_hash() callers already checked permission in LOOKUP_PARENT walk. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31vfs: don't revalidate just looked up dentryMiklos Szeredi
__lookup_hash() calls ->lookup() if the dentry needs lookup and on success revalidates the dentry (all under dir->i_mutex). While this is harmless it doesn't make a lot of sense. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-31vfs: fix d_need_lookup/d_revalidate order in do_lookupMiklos Szeredi
Doing revalidate on a dentry which has not yet been looked up makes no sense. Move the d_need_lookup() check before d_revalidate(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-24Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker: "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really need it. These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously. We now have things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible. What is remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir. Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed." Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups (including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull). * tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
2012-03-22vfs: tidy up sparse warnings in fs/namei.cLinus Torvalds
While doing the fs/namei.c cleanups, I ran sparse on it, and it pointed out other large integers and a couple of cases of us using '0' instead of the proper 'NULL'. Sparse still doesn't understand some of the conditional locking going on, but that's no excuse for not fixing up the trivial stuff. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-22vfs: tidy up fs/namei.c byte-repeat word constantsLinus Torvalds
In commit commit 1de5b41cd3b2 ("fs/namei.c: fix warnings on 32-bit") Andrew said that there must be a tidier way of doing this. This is that tidier way. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-22Fix full_name_hash() behaviour when length is a multiple of 8Al Viro
We want it to match what hash_name() is doing, which means extra multiply by 9 in this case... Reported-and-Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-22Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton: "A few misc things and all the MM queue" * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (92 commits) memcg: avoid THP split in task migration thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE memcg: clean up existing move charge code mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read() mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/ memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup memcg: simplify move_account() check memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat) memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock() cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock() memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting memcg: remove redundant returns memcg: enum lru_list lru ...
2012-03-22fs/namei.c: fix warnings on 32-bitAndrew Morton
i386 allnoconfig: fs/namei.c: In function 'has_zero': fs/namei.c:1617: warning: integer constant is too large for 'unsigned long' type fs/namei.c:1617: warning: integer constant is too large for 'unsigned long' type fs/namei.c: In function 'hash_name': fs/namei.c:1635: warning: integer constant is too large for 'unsigned long' type There must be a tidier way of doing this. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro: "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there yet." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits) ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files hfsplus: change finder_info to u32 hfsplus: initialise userflags qnx4: new helper - try_extent() qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec() trim includes in inode.c um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent configfs: sanitize configfs_create() ...
2012-03-21Merge branch 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang. It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic(). Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree. * 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits) feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename] drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() ...
2012-03-21switch touch_atime to struct pathAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-21vfs: check i_nlink limits in vfs_{mkdir,rename_dir,link}Al Viro
New field of struct super_block - ->s_max_links. Maximal allowed value of ->i_nlink or 0; in the latter case all checks still need to be done in ->link/->mkdir/->rename instances. Note that this limit applies both to directoris and to non-directories. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20fs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-19Merge branch 'dcache-word-accesses'Linus Torvalds
* branch 'dcache-word-accesses': vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison and hashing This does the name hashing and lookup using word-sized accesses when that is efficient, namely on x86 (although any little-endian machine with good unaligned accesses would do). It does very much depend on little-endian logic, but it's a very hot couple of functions under some real loads, and this patch improves the performance of __d_lookup_rcu() and link_path_walk() by up to about 30%. Giving a 10% improvement on some very pathname-heavy benchmarks. Because we do make unaligned accesses past the filename, the optimization is disabled when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is active, and we effectively depend on the fact that on x86 we don't really ever have the last page of usable RAM followed immediately by any IO memory (due to ACPI tables, BIOS buffer areas etc). Some of the bit operations we do are a bit "subtle". It's commented, but you do need to really think about the code. Or just consider it black magic. Thanks to people on G+ for some of the optimized bit tricks.
2012-03-10vfs: fix return value from do_last()Miklos Szeredi
complete_walk() returns either ECHILD or ESTALE. do_last() turns this into ECHILD unconditionally. If not in RCU mode, this error will reach userspace which is complete nonsense. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-10vfs: fix double put after complete_walk()Miklos Szeredi
complete_walk() already puts nd->path, no need to do it again at cleanup time. This would result in Oopses if triggered, apparently the codepath is not too well exercised. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-09vfs: use 'unsigned long' accesses for dcache name comparison and hashingLinus Torvalds
Ok, this is hacky, and only works on little-endian machines with goo unaligned handling. And even then only with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC disabled, since it can access up to 7 bytes after the pathname. But it runs like a bat out of hell. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-03vfs: export full_name_hash() function to modulesLinus Torvalds
Commit 5707c87f "vfs: uninline full_name_hash()" broke the modular build, because it needs exporting now that it isn't inlined any more. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-02vfs: split up name hashing in link_path_walk() into helper functionLinus Torvalds
The code in link_path_walk() that finds out the length and the hash of the next path component is some of the hottest code in the kernel. And I have a version of it that does things at the full width of the CPU wordsize at a time, but that means that we *really* want to split it up into a separate helper function. So this re-organizes the code a bit and splits the hashing part into a helper function called "hash_name()". It returns the length of the pathname component, while at the same time computing and writing the hash to the appropriate location. The code generation is slightly changed by this patch, but generally for the better - and the added abstraction actually makes the code easier to read too. And the new interface is well suited for replacing just the "hash_name()" function with alternative implementations. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-02vfs: uninline full_name_hash()Linus Torvalds
.. and also use it in lookup_one_len() rather than open-coding it. There aren't any performance-critical users, so inlining it is silly. But it wouldn't matter if it wasn't for the fact that the word-at-a-time dentry name patches want to conditionally replace the function, and uninlining it sets the stage for that. So again, this is a preparatory patch that doesn't change any semantics, and only prepares for a much cleaner and testable word-at-a-time dentry name accessor patch. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-02-29fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along the way. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-14vfs: fix d_inode_lookup() dentry ref leakMiklos Szeredi
d_inode_lookup() leaks a dentry reference on IS_DEADDIR(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-17audit: do not call audit_getname on errorEric Paris
Just a code cleanup really. We don't need to make a function call just for it to return on error. This also makes the VFS function even easier to follow and removes a conditional on a hot path. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-01-07Merge branches 'vfsmount-guts', 'umode_t' and 'partitions' into ZAl Viro
2012-01-04vfs: move mnt_mountpoint to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04vfs: now it can be done - make mnt_parent point to struct mountAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04vfs: mnt_parent moved to struct mountAl Viro
the second victim... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04vfs: spread struct mount - __lookup_mnt() resultAl Viro
switch __lookup_mnt() to returning struct mount *; callers adjusted. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04switch open and mkdir syscalls to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04switch may_mknod() to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04switch ->mknod() to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04switch ->create() to umode_tAl Viro
vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent and it's the only caller of the method Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04switch vfs_mkdir() and ->mkdir() to umode_tAl Viro
vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-04switch sys_mknodat(2) to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-11-07VFS: we need to set LOOKUP_JUMPED on mountpoint crossingAl Viro
Mountpoint crossing is similar to following procfs symlinks - we do not get ->d_revalidate() called for dentry we have arrived at, with unpleasant consequences for NFS4. Simple way to reproduce the problem in mainline: cat >/tmp/a.c <<'EOF' #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> main() { struct flock fl = {.l_type = F_RDLCK, .l_whence = SEEK_SET, .l_len = 1}; if (fcntl(0, F_SETLK, &fl)) perror("setlk"); } EOF cc /tmp/a.c -o /tmp/test then on nfs4: mount --bind file1 file2 /tmp/test < file1 # ok /tmp/test < file2 # spews "setlk: No locks available"... What happens is the missing call of ->d_revalidate() after mountpoint crossing and that's where NFS4 would issue OPEN request to server. The fix is simple - treat mountpoint crossing the same way we deal with following procfs-style symlinks. I.e. set LOOKUP_JUMPED... Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02readlinkat: ensure we return ENOENT for the empty pathname for normal lookupsAndy Whitcroft
Since the commit below which added O_PATH support to the *at() calls, the error return for readlink/readlinkat for the empty pathname has switched from ENOENT to EINVAL: commit 65cfc6722361570bfe255698d9cd4dccaf47570d Author: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Date: Sun Mar 13 15:56:26 2011 -0400 readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames This is both unexpected for userspace and makes readlink/readlinkat inconsistant with all other interfaces; and inconsistant with our stated return for these pathnames. As the readlinkat call does not have a flags parameter we cannot use the AT_EMPTY_PATH approach used in the other calls. Therefore expose whether the original path is infact entry via a new user_path_at_empty() path lookup function. Use this to determine whether to default to EINVAL or ENOENT for failures. Addresses http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/817187 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused getname_flags()] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-10-28leases: fix write-open/read-lease raceJ. Bruce Fields
In setlease, we use i_writecount to decide whether we can give out a read lease. In open, we break leases before incrementing i_writecount. There is therefore a window between the break lease and the i_writecount increment when setlease could add a new read lease. This would leave us with a simultaneous write open and read lease, which shouldn't happen. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-10-28vfs: add a comment to inode_permission()Andreas Gruenbacher
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-10-28vfs: pass all mask flags check_acl and posix_acl_permissionAndreas Gruenbacher
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-10-28vfs: indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flagsAndreas Gruenbacher
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2011-09-27vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flagLinus Torvalds
That flag no longer makes sense, since we don't look up automount points as eagerly any more. Additionally, it turns out that the NO_AUTOMOUNT handling was buggy to begin with: it would avoid automounting even for cases where we really *needed* to do the automount handling, and could return ENOENT for autofs entries that hadn't been instantiated yet. With our new non-eager automount semantics, one discussion has been about adding a AT_AUTOMOUNT flag to vfs_fstatat (and thus the newfstatat() and fstatat64() system calls), but it's probably not worth it: you can always force at least directory automounting by simply adding the final '/' to the filename, which works for *all* of the stat family system calls, old and new. So AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (and thus LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT) really were just a result of our bad default behavior. Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-27vfs pathname lookup: Add LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flagLinus Torvalds
Since we've now turned around and made LOOKUP_FOLLOW *not* force an automount, we want to add the ability to force an automount event on lookup even if we don't happen to have one of the other flags that force it implicitly (LOOKUP_OPEN, LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, LOOKUP_PARENT..) Most cases will never want to use this, since you'd normally want to delay automounting as long as possible, which usually implies LOOKUP_OPEN (when we open a file or directory, we really cannot avoid the automount any more). But Trond argued sufficiently forcefully that at a minimum bind mounting a file and quotactl will want to force the automount lookup. Some other cases (like nfs_follow_remote_path()) could use it too, although LOOKUP_DIRECTORY would work there as well. This commit just adds the flag and logic, no users yet, though. It also doesn't actually touch the LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag that is related, and was made irrelevant by the same change that made us not follow on LOOKUP_FOLLOW. Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-14restore pinning the victim dentry in vfs_rmdir()/vfs_rename_dir()Al Viro
We used to get the victim pinned by dentry_unhash() prior to commit 64252c75a219 ("vfs: remove dget() from dentry_unhash()") and ->rmdir() and ->rename() instances relied on that; most of them don't care, but ones that used d_delete() themselves do. As the result, we are getting rmdir() oopses on NFS now. Just grab the reference before locking the victim and drop it explicitly after unlocking, same as vfs_rename_other() does. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Cc: stable@kernel.org (3.0.x) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-09vfs: automount should ignore LOOKUP_FOLLOWMiklos Szeredi
Prior to 2.6.38 automount would not trigger on either stat(2) or lstat(2) on the automount point. After 2.6.38, with the introduction of the ->d_automount() infrastructure, stat(2) and others would start triggering automount while lstat(2), etc. still would not. This is a regression and a userspace ABI change. Problem originally reported here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.autofs/6098 It appears that there was an attempt at fixing various userspace tools to not trigger the automount. But since the stat system call is rather common it is impossible to "fix" all userspace. This patch reverts the original behavior, which is to not trigger on stat(2) and other symlink following syscalls. [ It's not really clear what the right behavior is. Apparently Solaris does the "automount on stat, leave alone on lstat". And some programs can get unhappy when "stat+open+fstat" ends up giving a different result from the fstat than from the initial stat. But the change in 2.6.38 resulted in problems for some people, so we're going back to old behavior. Maybe we can re-visit this discussion at some future date - Linus ] Reported-by: Leonardo Chiquitto <leonardo.lists@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-07vfs: rename 'do_follow_link' to 'should_follow_link'Linus Torvalds
Al points out that the do_follow_link() helper function really is misnamed - it's about whether we should try to follow a symlink or not, not about actually doing the following. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-07Fix POSIX ACL permission checkAri Savolainen
After commit 3567866bf261: "RCUify freeing acls, let check_acl() go ahead in RCU mode if acl is cached" posix_acl_permission is being called with an unsupported flag and the permission check fails. This patch fixes the issue. Signed-off-by: Ari Savolainen <ari.m.savolainen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-08-07vfs: optimize inode cache access patternsLinus Torvalds
The inode structure layout is largely random, and some of the vfs paths really do care. The path lookup in particular is already quite D$ intensive, and profiles show that accessing the 'inode->i_op->xyz' fields is quite costly. We already optimized the dcache to not unnecessarily load the d_op structure for members that are often NULL using the DCACHE_OP_xyz bits in dentry->d_flags, and this does something very similar for the inode ops that are used during pathname lookup. It also re-orders the fields so that the fields accessed by 'stat' are together at the beginning of the inode structure, and roughly in the order accessed. The effect of this seems to be in the 1-2% range for an empty kernel "make -j" run (which is fairly kernel-intensive, mostly in filename lookup), so it's visible. The numbers are fairly noisy, though, and likely depend a lot on exact microarchitecture. So there's more tuning to be done. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>