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417 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tobias Klauser
8c5dc70aae VFS: Fixup kerneldoc for generic_permission()
The flags parameter went away in
d749519b444db985e40b897f73ce1898b11f997e

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 20:47:43 -04:00
Al Viro
e3c3d9c838 unexport kern_path_parent()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:16 -04:00
Al Viro
e0a0124936 switch vfs_path_lookup() to struct path
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:14 -04:00
Al Viro
ed75e95de5 kill lookup_create()
folded into the only caller (kern_path_create())

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:12 -04:00
Al Viro
dae6ad8f37 new helpers: kern_path_create/user_path_create
combination of kern_path_parent() and lookup_create().  Does *not*
expose struct nameidata to caller.  Syscalls converted to that...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:05 -04:00
Al Viro
49084c3bb2 kill LOOKUP_CONTINUE
LOOKUP_PARENT is equivalent to it now

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:44:03 -04:00
Al Viro
8a5e929dd2 don't transliterate lower bits of ->intent.open.flags to FMODE_...
->create() instances are much happier that way...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:52 -04:00
Al Viro
554a8b9f54 Don't pass nameidata when calling vfs_create() from mknod()
All instances can cope with that now (and ceph one actually
starts working properly).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:49 -04:00
Al Viro
d2d9e9fbc2 merge do_revalidate() into its only caller
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:34 -04:00
Al Viro
4ad5abb3d0 no reason to keep exec_permission() separate now
cache footprint alone makes it a bad idea...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:32 -04:00
Al Viro
d594e7ec4d massage generic_permission() to treat directories on a separate path
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:30 -04:00
Al Viro
eecdd358b4 ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to exec_permission()
pass mask instead; kill security_inode_exec_permission() since we can use
security_inode_permission() instead.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:29 -04:00
Al Viro
10556cb21a ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()
not used by the instances anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:24 -04:00
Al Viro
2830ba7f34 ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to generic_permission()
redundant; all callers get it duplicated in mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK and none of
them removes that bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:22 -04:00
Al Viro
7e40145eb1 ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->check_acl()
not used in the instances anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:21 -04:00
Al Viro
9c2c703929 ->permission() sanitizing: pass MAY_NOT_BLOCK to ->check_acl()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:19 -04:00
Al Viro
1fc0f78ca9 ->permission() sanitizing: MAY_NOT_BLOCK
Duplicate the flags argument into mask bitmap.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:18 -04:00
Al Viro
178ea73521 kill check_acl callback of generic_permission()
its value depends only on inode and does not change; we might as
well store it in ->i_op->check_acl and be done with that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:16 -04:00
Al Viro
07b8ce1ee8 lockless get_write_access/deny_write_access
new helpers: atomic_inc_unless_negative()/atomic_dec_unless_positive()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:14 -04:00
Al Viro
f4d6ff89d8 move exec_permission() up to the rest of permission-related functions
... and convert the comment before it into linuxdoc form.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:13 -04:00
Al Viro
3bfa784a65 kill file_permission() completely
convert the last remaining caller to inode_permission()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:11 -04:00
Al Viro
78f32a9b47 switch path_init() to exec_permission()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:08 -04:00
Al Viro
4cf27141cb make exec_permission(dir) really equivalent to inode_permission(dir, MAY_EXEC)
capability overrides apply only to the default case; if fs has ->permission()
that does _not_ call generic_permission(), we have no business doing them.
Moreover, if it has ->permission() that does call generic_permission(), we
have no need to recheck capabilities.

Besides, the capability overrides should apply only if we got EACCES from
acl_permission_check(); any other value (-EIO, etc.) should be returned
to caller, capabilities or not capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:05 -04:00
Josef Bacik
44396f4b5c fs: add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP flag for d_flags
Btrfs (and I'd venture most other fs's) stores its indexes in nice disk order
for readdir, but unfortunately in the case of anything that stats the files in
order that readdir spits back (like oh say ls) that means we still have to do
the normal lookup of the file, which means looking up our other index and then
looking up the inode.  What I want is a way to create dummy dentries when we
find them in readdir so that when ls or anything else subsequently does a
stat(), we already have the location information in the dentry and can go
straight to the inode itself.  The lookup stuff just assumes that if it finds a
dentry it is done, it doesn't perform a lookup.  So add a DCACHE_NEED_LOOKUP
flag so that the lookup code knows it still needs to run i_op->lookup() on the
parent to get the inode for the dentry.  I have tested this with btrfs and I
went from something that looks like this

http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-noreada.png

To this

http://people.redhat.com/jwhiter/ls-good.png

Thats a savings of 1300 seconds, or 22 minutes.  That is a significant savings.
Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-20 01:43:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5943026240 vfs: fix race in rcu lookup of pruned dentry
Don't update *inode in __follow_mount_rcu() until we'd verified that
there is mountpoint there.  Kudos to Hugh Dickins for catching that
one in the first place and eventually figuring out the solution (and
catching a braino in the earlier version of patch).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-19 21:49:01 -07:00
Al Viro
94c0d4ecbe Fix ->d_lock locking order in unlazy_walk()
Make sure that child is still a child of parent before nested locking
of child->d_lock in unlazy_walk(); otherwise we are risking a violation
of locking order and deadlocks.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-12 21:40:23 -04:00
Al Viro
8e833fd2e1 fix comment in generic_permission()
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE is enough for MAY_EXEC on directory, even if
no exec bits are set.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:45:56 -04:00
Al Viro
6291176bcd kill obsolete comment for follow_down()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-20 10:45:49 -04:00
Al Viro
8aef188452 VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount
[Kudos to dhowells for tracking that crap down]

If two processes attempt to cause automounting on the same mountpoint at the
same time, the vfsmount holding the mountpoint will be left with one too few
references on it, causing a BUG when the kernel tries to clean up.

The problem is that lock_mount() drops the caller's reference to the
mountpoint's vfsmount in the case where it finds something already mounted on
the mountpoint as it transits to the mounted filesystem and replaces path->mnt
with the new mountpoint vfsmount.

During a pathwalk, however, we don't take a reference on the vfsmount if it is
the same as the one in the nameidata struct, but do_add_mount() doesn't know
this.

The fix is to make sure we have a ref on the vfsmount of the mountpoint before
calling do_add_mount().  However, if lock_mount() doesn't transit, we're then
left with an extra ref on the mountpoint vfsmount which needs releasing.
We can handle that in follow_managed() by not making assumptions about what
we can and what we cannot get from lookup_mnt() as the current code does.

The callers of follow_managed() expect that reference to path->mnt will be
grabbed iff path->mnt has been changed.  follow_managed() and follow_automount()
keep track of whether such reference has been grabbed and assume that it'll
happen in those and only those cases that'll have us return with changed
path->mnt.  That assumption is almost correct - it breaks in case of
racing automounts and in even harder to hit race between following a mountpoint
and a couple of mount --move.  The thing is, we don't need to make that
assumption at all - after the end of loop in follow_manage() we can check
if path->mnt has ended up unchanged and do mntput() if needed.

The BUG can be reproduced with the following test program:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <sys/stat.h>
	#include <unistd.h>
	#include <sys/wait.h>
	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		int pid, ws;
		struct stat buf;
		pid = fork();
		stat(argv[1], &buf);
		if (pid > 0) wait(&ws);
		return 0;
	}

and the following procedure:

 (1) Mount an NFS volume that on the server has something else mounted on a
     subdirectory.  For instance, I can mount / from my server:

	mount warthog:/ /mnt -t nfs4 -r

     On the server /data has another filesystem mounted on it, so NFS will see
     a change in FSID as it walks down the path, and will mark /mnt/data as
     being a mountpoint.  This will cause the automount code to be triggered.

     !!! Do not look inside the mounted fs at this point !!!

 (2) Run the above program on a file within the submount to generate two
     simultaneous automount requests:

	/tmp/forkstat /mnt/data/testfile

 (3) Unmount the automounted submount:

	umount /mnt/data

 (4) Unmount the original mount:

	umount /mnt

     At this point the kernel should throw a BUG with something like the
     following:

	BUG: Dentry ffff880032e3c5c0{i=2,n=} still in use (1) [unmount of nfs4 0:12]

Note that the bug appears on the root dentry of the original mount, not the
mountpoint and not the submount because sys_umount() hasn't got to its final
mntput_no_expire() yet, but this isn't so obvious from the call trace:

 [<ffffffff8117cd82>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x69/0x82
 [<ffffffff8116160e>] generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x15b
 [<ffffffffa00fae56>] ? nfs_super_return_all_delegations+0x2e/0x1b1 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff811617f3>] kill_anon_super+0x1d/0x7e
 [<ffffffffa00d0be1>] nfs4_kill_super+0x60/0xb6 [nfs]
 [<ffffffff81161c17>] deactivate_locked_super+0x34/0x83
 [<ffffffff811629ff>] deactivate_super+0x6f/0x7b
 [<ffffffff81186261>] mntput_no_expire+0x18d/0x199
 [<ffffffff811862a8>] mntput+0x3b/0x44
 [<ffffffff81186d87>] release_mounts+0xa2/0xbf
 [<ffffffff811876af>] sys_umount+0x47a/0x4ba
 [<ffffffff8109e1ca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x1fd/0x22f
 [<ffffffff816ea86b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

as do_umount() is inlined.  However, you can see release_mounts() in there.

Note also that it may be necessary to have multiple CPU cores to be able to
trigger this bug.

Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:28:16 -04:00
Török Edwin
50338b889d fix wrong iput on d_inode introduced by e6bc45d65d
Git bisection shows that commit e6bc45d65d causes
BUG_ONs under high I/O load:

kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:1368!
[ 2862.501007] Call Trace:
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff811691d8>] d_kill+0xf8/0x140
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81169c19>] dput+0xc9/0x190
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff8115577f>] fput+0x15f/0x210
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152171>] filp_close+0x61/0x90
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff81152251>] sys_close+0xb1/0x110
[ 2862.501007]  [<ffffffff814c14fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

A reliable way to reproduce this bug is:
Login to KDE, run 'rsnapshot sync', and apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk,
and apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk.

The buggy part of the patch is this:
	struct inode *inode = NULL;
.....
-               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len])
-                       goto slashes;
                inode = dentry->d_inode;
-               if (inode)
-                       ihold(inode);
+               if (nd.last.name[nd.last.len] || !inode)
+                       goto slashes;
+               ihold(inode)
...
	if (inode)
		iput(inode);	/* truncate the inode here */

If nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is nonzero (and thus goto slashes branch is taken),
and dentry->d_inode is non-NULL, then this code now does an additional iput on
the inode, which is wrong.

Fix this by only setting the inode variable if nd.last.name[nd.last.len] is 0.

Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/15/50
Reported-by: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-16 11:27:39 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
e6bc45d65d vfs: make unlink() and rmdir() return ENOENT in preference to EROFS
If user space attempts to remove a non-existent file or directory, and
the file system is mounted read-only, return ENOENT instead of EROFS.
Either error code is arguably valid/correct, but ENOENT is a more
specific error message.

Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-07 08:51:14 -04:00
Sage Weil
3cebde2413 vfs: shrink_dcache_parent before rmdir, dir rename
The dentry_unhash push-down series missed that shink_dcache_parent needs to
be called prior to rmdir or dir rename to clear DCACHE_REFERENCED and
allow efficient dentry reclaim.

Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-30 01:48:27 -04:00
Al Viro
d6e9bd256c Lift the check for automount points into do_lookup()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-27 07:03:15 -04:00
Al Viro
dea3937619 Trim excessive arguments of follow_mount_rcu()
... and kill a useless local variable in follow_dotdot_rcu(), while
we are at it - follow_mount_rcu(nd, path, inode) *always* assigned
value to *inode, and always it had been path->dentry->d_inode (aka
nd->path.dentry->d_inode, since it always got &nd->path as the second
argument).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-27 07:01:49 -04:00
Al Viro
287548e46a split __follow_mount_rcu() into normal and .. cases
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-27 06:51:56 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
32e51f141f Merge branch 'for-linus' of 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: (25 commits)
  cifs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ocfs2: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  exofs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  nfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext2: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext3: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext4: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  btrfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash in rmdir/rename_dir
  ceph: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash calls
  vfs: clean up vfs_rename_other
  vfs: clean up vfs_rename_dir
  vfs: clean up vfs_rmdir
  vfs: fix vfs_rename_dir for FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems
  libfs: drop unneeded dentry_unhash
  vfs: update dentry_unhash() comment
  vfs: push dentry_unhash on rename_dir into file systems
  vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systems
  vfs: remove dget() from dentry_unhash()
  vfs: dentry_unhash immediately prior to rmdir
  vfs: Block mmapped writes while the fs is frozen
  ...
2011-05-26 09:52:14 -07:00
Sage Weil
51892bbb57 vfs: clean up vfs_rename_other
Simplify control flow to match vfs_rename_dir.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:53 -04:00
Sage Weil
9055cba711 vfs: clean up vfs_rename_dir
Simplify control flow through vfs_rename_dir.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:52 -04:00
Sage Weil
912dbc15d9 vfs: clean up vfs_rmdir
Simplify the control flow with an out label.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:51 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
b5afd2c406 vfs: fix vfs_rename_dir for FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems
vfs_rename_dir() doesn't properly account for filesystems with
FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE.  If new_dentry has a target inode attached, it
unhashes the new_dentry prior to the rename() iop and rehashes it after,
but doesn't account for the possibility that rename() may have swapped
{old,new}_dentry.  For FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems, it rehashes
new_dentry (now the old renamed-from name, which d_move() expected to go
away), such that a subsequent lookup will find it.  Currently all
FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems compensate for this by failing in
d_revalidate.

The bug was introduced by: commit 349457ccf2
"[PATCH] Allow file systems to manually d_move() inside of ->rename()"

Fix by not rehashing the new dentry.  Rehashing used to be needed by
d_move() but isn't anymore.

Reported-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:50 -04:00
Sage Weil
a71905f0db vfs: update dentry_unhash() comment
The helper is now only called by file systems, not the VFS.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:49 -04:00
Sage Weil
e4eaac06bc vfs: push dentry_unhash on rename_dir into file systems
Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
rename method (except gfs2 and xfs) so that it can be dealt with on a
per-fs basis.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:48 -04:00
Sage Weil
79bf7c732b vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systems
Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
fs rmdir method (except gfs2 and xfs) so it can be dealt with on a per-fs
basis.

This does not change behavior for any in-tree file systems.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:47 -04:00
Sage Weil
64252c75a2 vfs: remove dget() from dentry_unhash()
This serves no useful purpose that I can discern.  All callers (rename,
rmdir) hold their own reference to the dentry.

A quick audit of all file systems showed no relevant checks on the value
of d_count in vfs_rmdir/vfs_rename_dir paths.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:46 -04:00
Sage Weil
48293699a0 vfs: dentry_unhash immediately prior to rmdir
This presumes that there is no reason to unhash a dentry if we fail because
it is a mountpoint or the LSM check fails, and that the LSM checks do not
depend on the dentry being unhashed.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:46 -04:00
Al Viro
9f1fafee9e merge handle_reval_dot and nameidata_drop_rcu_last
new helper: complete_walk().  Done on successful completion
of walk, drops out of RCU mode, does d_revalidate of final
result if that hadn't been done already.

handle_reval_dot() and nameidata_drop_rcu_last() subsumed into
that one; callers converted to use of complete_walk().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:32 -04:00
Al Viro
19660af736 consolidate nameidata_..._drop_rcu()
Merge these into a single function (unlazy_walk(nd, dentry)),
kill ..._maybe variants

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:02 -04:00
Erez Zadok
1a4022f88d VFS: move BUG_ON test for symlink nd->depth after current->link_count test
This solves a serious VFS-level bug in nested_symlink (which was
rewritten from do_follow_link), and follows the order of depth tests
that existed before.

The bug triggers a BUG_ON in fs/namei.c:1381, when running racer with
symlink and rename ops.

Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-21 00:12:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
26cf46be95 vfs: micro-optimize acl_permission_check()
It's a hot function, and we're better off not mixing types in the mask
calculations.  The compiler just ends up mixing 16-bit and 32-bit
operations, for no good reason.

So do everything in 'unsigned int' rather than mixing 'unsigned int'
masking with a 'umode_t' (16-bit) mode variable.

This, together with the parent commit (47a150edc2: "Cache user_ns in
struct cred") makes acl_permission_check() much nicer.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-13 11:51:01 -07:00
Tim Chen
c1530019e3 vfs: Fix absolute RCU path walk failures due to uninitialized seq number
During RCU walk in path_lookupat and path_openat, the rcu lookup
frequently failed if looking up an absolute path, because when root
directory was looked up, seq number was not properly set in nameidata.

We dropped out of RCU walk in nameidata_drop_rcu due to mismatch in
directory entry's seq number.  We reverted to slow path walk that need
to take references.

With the following patch, I saw a 50% increase in an exim mail server
benchmark throughput on a 4-socket Nehalem-EX system.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (v2.6.38)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-15 15:28:12 -07:00