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2009-01-22MERGE-via-pending-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatc ↵merge
hes-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040-1232632141 pending-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040-1232632141 / fdf777a63bcb59e0dfd78bfe2c6242e01f6d4eb9 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-via-stable-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040 stable-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040 / 90463bfd2d5a3c8b52f6e6d71024a00e052b0ced ... parent commitmessage: From: merge <null@invalid> MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-hist-fix-stray-endmenu-patch mokopatches-tracking-hist top was fix-stray-endmenu-patch / 3630e0be570de8057e7f8d2fe501ed353cdf34e6 ... parent commitmessage: From: Andy Green <andy@openmoko.com> fix-stray-endmenu.patch Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@openmoko.com>
2008-10-23[PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission()Miklos Szeredi
For execute permission on a regular files we need to check if file has any execute bits at all, regardless of capabilites. This check is normally performed by generic_permission() but was also added to the case when the filesystem defines its own ->permission() method. In the latter case the filesystem should be responsible for performing this check. Move the check from inode_permission() inside filesystems which are not calling generic_permission(). Create a helper function execute_ok() that returns true if the inode is a directory or if any execute bits are present in i_mode. Also fix up the following code: - coda control file is never executable - sysctl files are never executable - hfs_permission seems broken on MAY_EXEC, remove - hfsplus_permission is eqivalent to generic_permission(), remove Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-10-23[PATCH vfs-2.6 6/6] vfs: add LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET intentOGAWA Hirofumi
This adds LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET intent for lookup of rename destination. LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET is going to be used like LOOKUP_CREATE. But since the destination of rename() can be existing directory entry, so it has a difference. Although that difference doesn't matter in my usage, this tells it to user of this intent. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23[PATCH vfs-2.6 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookupOGAWA Hirofumi
lookup_hash() with LOOKUP_PARENT is bogus. And this prepares to add new intent on those path. The user of LOOKUP_PARENT intent is nfs only, and it checks whether nd->flags has LOOKUP_CREATE or LOOKUP_OPEN, so the result is same. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23[PATCH vfs-2.6 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor()OGAWA Hirofumi
This adds d_ancestor() instead of d_isparent(), then use it. If new_dentry == old_dentry, is_subdir() returns 1, looks strange. "new_dentry == old_dentry" is not subdir obviously. But I'm not checking callers for now, so this keeps current behavior. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23[PATCH vfs-2.6 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT()OGAWA Hirofumi
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23[PATCH] make O_EXCL in nd->intent.flags visible in nd->flagsAl Viro
New flag: LOOKUP_EXCL. Set before doing the final step of pathname resolution on the paths that have LOOKUP_CREATE and O_EXCL. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23[PATCH] get rid of path_lookup_create()Al Viro
... and don't pass bogus flags when we are just looking for parent. Fold __path_lookup_intent_open() into path_lookup_open() while we are at it; that's the only remaining caller. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23[PATCH] new helper - kern_path()Al Viro
Analog of lookup_path(), takes struct path *. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01[patch 3/4] vfs: remove unused nameidata argument of may_create()Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01Re: BUG at security/selinux/avc.c:883 (was: Re: linux-next: TreeStephen Smalley
for July 17: early crash on x86-64) SELinux needs MAY_APPEND to be passed down to the security hook. Otherwise, we get permission denials when only append permission is granted by policy even if the opening process specified O_APPEND. Shows up as a regression in the ltp selinux testsuite, fixed by this patch. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] get rid of __user_path_lookup_openAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] new (local) helper: user_path_parent()Al Viro
Preparation to untangling intents mess: reduce the number of do_path_lookup() callers. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] sanitize __user_walk_fd() et.al.Al Viro
* do not pass nameidata; struct path is all the callers want. * switch to new helpers: user_path_at(dfd, pathname, flags, &path) user_path(pathname, &path) user_lpath(pathname, &path) user_path_dir(pathname, &path) (fail if not a directory) The last 3 are trivial macro wrappers for the first one. * remove nameidata in callers. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] kill nameidata passing to permission(), rename to inode_permission()Al Viro
Incidentally, the name that gives hundreds of false positives on grep is not a good idea... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] take noexec checks to very few callers that careAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] more nameidata removal: exec_permission_lite() doesn't need itAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] pass MAY_OPEN to vfs_permission() explicitlyAl Viro
... and get rid of the last "let's deduce mask from nameidata->flags" bit. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] fix MAY_CHDIR/MAY_ACCESS/LOOKUP_ACCESS messAl Viro
* MAY_CHDIR is redundant - it's an equivalent of MAY_ACCESS * MAY_ACCESS on fuse should affect only the last step of pathname resolution * fchdir() and chroot() should pass MAY_ACCESS, for the same reason why chdir() needs that. * now that we pass MAY_ACCESS explicitly in all cases, LOOKUP_ACCESS can be removed; it has no business being in nameidata. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] kill altrootAl Viro
long overdue... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[PATCH] permission checks for chdir need special treatment only on the last stepAl Viro
... so we ought to pass MAY_CHDIR to vfs_permission() instead of having it triggered on every step of preceding pathname resolution. LOOKUP_CHDIR is killed by that. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[patch 5/5] vfs: remove mode parameter from vfs_symlink()Miklos Szeredi
Remove the unused mode parameter from vfs_symlink and callers. Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for noticing. CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-07-26[patch 4/5] vfs: reuse local variable in vfs_link()Tetsuo Handa
Why not reuse "inode" which is assigned as struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode; in the beginning of vfs_link() ? Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-07-26[PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototypeAl Viro
* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask. * kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission() * sanitize ecryptfs_permission() * fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new MAY_... found in mask. The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9) folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26[patch] vfs: fix lookup on deleted directoryMiklos Szeredi
Lookup can install a child dentry for a deleted directory. This keeps the directory dentry alive, and the inode pinned in the cache and on disk, even after all external references have gone away. This isn't a big problem normally, since memory pressure or umount will clear out the directory dentry and its children, releasing the inode. But for UBIFS this causes problems because its orphan area can overflow. Fix this by returning ENOENT for all lookups on a S_DEAD directory before creating a child dentry. Thanks to Zoltan Sogor for noticing this while testing UBIFS, and Artem for the excellent analysis of the problem and testing. Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23[patch 3/4] vfs: fix ERR_PTR abuse in generic_readlinkMarcin Slusarz
generic_readlink calls ERR_PTR for negative and positive values (vfs_readlink returns length of "link"), but it should not (not an errno) and does not need to. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23[patch 1/4] vfs: path_{get,put}() cleanupsJan Blunck
Here are some more places where path_{get,put}() can be used instead of dput()/mntput() pair. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16[PATCH] return to old errno choice in mkdir() et.al.Al Viro
In case when both EEXIST and EROFS would apply we used to return the former in mkdir(2) and friends. Lest anyone suspects us of being consistent, in the same situation knfsd gave clients nfs_erofs... ro-bind series had switched the syscall side of things to returning -EROFS and immediately broke an application - namely, mkdir -p. Patch restores the original behaviour... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-29cgroups: implement device whitelistSerge E. Hallyn
Implement a cgroup to track and enforce open and mknod restrictions on device files. A device cgroup associates a device access whitelist with each cgroup. A whitelist entry has 4 fields. 'type' is a (all), c (char), or b (block). 'all' means it applies to all types and all major and minor numbers. Major and minor are either an integer or * for all. Access is a composition of r (read), w (write), and m (mknod). The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'. A child devcg gets a copy of the parent. Admins can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new entries. A child cgroup can never receive a device access which is denied its parent. However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be removed from the child(ren). An entry is added using devices.allow, and removed using devices.deny. For instance echo 'c 1:3 mr' > /cgroups/1/devices.allow allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as /dev/null. Doing echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry. CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to change permissions or move another task to a new cgroup. A cgroup may not be granted more permissions than the cgroup's parent has. Any task can move itself between cgroups. This won't be sufficient, but we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement later. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix may-be-used-uninitialized warning] Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Looks-good-to: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for open()sDave Hansen
This is the first really tricky patch in the series. It elevates the writer count on a mount each time a non-special file is opened for write. We used to do this in may_open(), but Miklos pointed out that __dentry_open() is used as well to create filps. This will cover even those cases, while a call in may_open() would not have. There is also an elevated count around the vfs_create() call in open_namei(). See the comments for more details, but we need this to fix a 'create, remount, fail r/w open()' race. Some filesystems forego the use of normal vfs calls to create struct files. Make sure that these users elevate the mnt writer count because they will get __fput(), and we need to make sure they're balanced. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: get write access for vfs_rename() callersDave Hansen
This also uses the little helper in the NFS code to make an if() a little bit less ugly. We introduced the helper at the beginning of the series. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: write counts for link/symlinkDave Hansen
[AV: add missing nfsd pieces] Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: get callers of vfs_mknod/create/mkdir()Dave Hansen
This takes care of all of the direct callers of vfs_mknod(). Since a few of these cases also handle normal file creation as well, this also covers some calls to vfs_create(). So that we don't have to make three mnt_want/drop_write() calls inside of the switch statement, we move some of its logic outside of the switch and into a helper function suggested by Christoph. This also encapsulates a fix for mknod(S_IFREG) that Miklos found. [AV: merged mkdir handling, added missing nfsd pieces] Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for rmdir and unlink.Dave Hansen
Elevate the write count during the vfs_rmdir() and vfs_unlink(). [AV: merged rmdir and unlink parts, added missing pieces in nfsd] Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] merge open_namei() and do_filp_open()Christoph Hellwig
open_namei() will, in the future, need to take mount write counts over its creation and truncation (via may_open()) operations. It needs to keep these write counts until any potential filp that is created gets __fput()'d. This gets complicated in the error handling and becomes very murky as to how far open_namei() actually got, and whether or not that mount write count was taken. That makes it a bad interface. All that the current do_filp_open() really does is allocate the nameidata on the stack, then call open_namei(). So, this merges those two functions and moves filp_open() over to namei.c so it can be close to its buddy: do_filp_open(). It also gets a kerneldoc comment in the process. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19[PATCH] do namei_flags calculation inside open_namei()Dave Hansen
My end goal here is to make sure all users of may_open() return filps. This will ensure that we properly release mount write counts which were taken for the filp in may_open(). This patch moves the sys_open flags to namei flags calculation into fs/namei.c. We'll shortly be moving the nameidata_to_filp() calls into namei.c, and this gets the sys_open flags to a place where we can get at them when we need them. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-25Merge 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: [PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity [PATCH] double iput() on failure exit in hugetlb [PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem [PATCH] fix up new filp allocators [PATCH] check for null vfsmount in dentry_open() [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr [PATCH] sanitize hppfs hppfs pass vfsmount to dentry_open() [PATCH] restore export of do_kern_mount()
2008-03-19fs: fix kernel-doc notation warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/. Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line: * mark_files_ro Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line: * lease_get_mtime Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line: * lease_get_mtime Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line: * lookup_one_len: filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line: * bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line: * bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line: * writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line: * writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line: * writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device. Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line: * void journal_invalidatepage() Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19[PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanityAl Viro
Somebody had put struct nameidata in stack frame of link_path_walk(). Unfortunately, there are certain realities to deal with: * It's in the middle of recursion. Depth is equal to the nesting depth of symlinks, i.e. up to 8. * struct namiedata is, even if one discards the intent junk, at least 12 pointers + 5 ints. * moreover, adding a stack frame is not free in that situation. * there are fs methods called on top of that, and they also have stack footprint. * kernel stack is not infinite. The thing is, even if one chooses to deal with -ESTALE that way (and it's one hell of an overkill), the only thing that needs to be preserved is vfsmount + dentry, not the entire struct nameidata. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-02-14Use struct path in fs_structJan Blunck
* Use struct path in fs_struct. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14Introduce path_get()Jan Blunck
This introduces the symmetric function to path_put() for getting a reference to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14Use path_put() in a few places instead of {mnt,d}put()Jan Blunck
Use path_put() in a few places instead of {mnt,d}put() Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14Introduce path_put()Jan Blunck
* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order * Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path) * Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional() [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}Jan Blunck
This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata. Together with the other patches of this series - it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on <dentry,vfsmount> pairs - it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed - it reduces the overall code size: without patch series: text data bss dec hex filename 5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinux with patch series: text data bss dec hex filename 5320026 858418 715768 6894212 693284 vmlinux This patch: Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14Remove path_release_on_umount()Jan Blunck
path_release_on_umount() should only be called from sys_umount(). I merged the function into sys_umount() instead of having in in namei.c. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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>
2008-02-08fs: remove fastcall, it is always emptyHarvey Harrison
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06inotify: send IN_ATTRIB events when link count changesJan Kara
Currently, no notification event has been sent when inode's link count changed. This is inconvenient for the application in some cases: Suppose you have the following directory structure foo/test bar/ and you watch test. If someone does "mv foo/test bar/", you get event IN_MOVE_SELF and you know something has happened with the file "test". However if someone does "ln foo/test bar/test" and "rm foo/test" you get no inotify event for the file "test" (only directories "foo" and "bar" receive events). Furthermore it could be argued that link count belongs to file's metadata and thus IN_ATTRIB should be sent when it changes. The following patch implements sending of IN_ATTRIB inotify events when link count of the inode changes, i.e., when a hardlink to the inode is created or when it is removed. This event is sent in addition to all the events sent so far. In particular, when a last link to a file is removed, IN_ATTRIB event is sent in addition to IN_DELETE_SELF event. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-12Use access mode instead of open flags to determine needed permissionsLinus Torvalds
Way back when (in commit 834f2a4a1554dc5b2598038b3fe8703defcbe467, aka "VFS: Allow the filesystem to return a full file pointer on open intent" to be exact), Trond changed the open logic to keep track of the original flags to a file open, in order to pass down the the intent of a dentry lookup to the low-level filesystem. However, when doing that reorganization, it changed the meaning of namei_flags, and thus inadvertently changed the test of access mode for directories (and RO filesystem) to use the wrong flag. So fix those test back to use access mode ("acc_mode") rather than the open flag ("flag"). Issue noticed by Bill Roman at Datalight. Reported-and-tested-by: Bill Roman <bill.roman@datalight.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-21[PATCH] pass dentry to audit_inode()/audit_inode_child()Al Viro
makes caller simpler *and* allows to scan ancestors Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-10-18VFS: allow filesystems to implement atomic open+truncateMiklos Szeredi
Add a new attribute flag ATTR_OPEN, with the meaning: "truncation was initiated by open() due to the O_TRUNC flag". This way filesystems wanting to implement truncation within their ->open() method can ignore such truncate requests. This is a quick & dirty hack, but it comes for free. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>