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1057 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Nathan Scott
da087bad81 [XFS] Fix up a 32/64 local flags variable issue when enabling attr2 mode.
SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23925a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 15:00:20 +11:00
Eric Sandeen
0116d9356b [XFS] Remove dead code in xfs_iomap_write_direct; save some stack
SGI-PV: 943266
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:199750a

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 15:00:01 +11:00
Nathan Scott
4ce3121f67 [XFS] Update license/copyright notices to match the prefered SGI
boilerplate.

SGI-PV: 913862
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23917a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 14:59:41 +11:00
Nathan Scott
7b71876980 [XFS] Update license/copyright notices to match the prefered SGI
boilerplate.

SGI-PV: 913862
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23903a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 14:58:39 +11:00
Nathan Scott
a844f4510d [XFS] Remove xfs_macros.c, xfs_macros.h, rework headers a whole lot.
SGI-PV: 943122
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23901a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 14:38:42 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
61c1e689fb [XFS] remove unused struct xfs_ail_ticket
SGI-PV: 919278
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:199498a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 11:44:57 +11:00
Nathan Scott
fc1f8c1ca3 [XFS] Track external log/realtime device names for correct reporting in
/proc/mounts.

SGI-PV: 942984
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23862a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 11:44:33 +11:00
Nathan Scott
4aeb664c25 [XFS] Improve buffered read throughput by removing unnecessary timer calls
that showed in ´kernel profiles.

SGI-PV: 925163
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23861a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 11:43:58 +11:00
Nathan Scott
0fdfb3757f [XFS] Remove a null CELL macro and its one caller, not useful to anyone.
SGI-PV: 942986
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23860a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 11:43:42 +11:00
Nathan Scott
380b5dc0e5 [XFS] Fix up an internal sort function name collision issue.
SGI-PV: 942986
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23859a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 11:43:18 +11:00
Nathan Scott
80cce77980 [XFS] Make some extended attributes routines take const parameters, for
the FreeBSD porters.

SGI-PV: 942906
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23845a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 11:43:04 +11:00
Nathan Scott
f74dee4276 [XFS] Ondisk format extension for extended attributes (attr2). Basically,
the data/attr forks now grow up/down from either end of the literal area,
rather than dividing the literal area into two chunks and growing both
upward.  Means we can now make much more efficient use of the attribute
space, incl. fitting DMF attributes inline in 256 byte inodes, and large
jumps in dbench3 performance numbers.  It is self enabling, but can be
forced on/off via the attr2/noattr2 mount options.

SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23837a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:35:56 +11:00
Nathan Scott
af4e34a527 [XFS] Ondisk format extension for extended attributes (attr2). Basically,
the data/attr forks now grow up/down from either end of the literal area,
rather than dividing the literal area into two chunks and growing both
upward.  Means we can now make much more efficient use of the attribute
space, incl. fitting DMF attributes inline in 256 byte inodes, and large
jumps in dbench3 performance numbers.  It is self enabling, but can be
forced on/off via the attr2/noattr2 mount options.

SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23836a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:35:46 +11:00
Nathan Scott
d8cc890d40 [XFS] Ondisk format extension for extended attributes (attr2). Basically,
the data/attr forks now grow up/down from either end of the literal area,
rather than dividing the literal area into two chunks and growing both
upward.  Means we can now make much more efficient use of the attribute
space, incl. fitting DMF attributes inline in 256 byte inodes, and large
jumps in dbench3 performance numbers.  It is self enabling, but can be
forced on/off via the attr2/noattr2 mount options.

SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23835a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:34:53 +11:00
Nathan Scott
aa82daa061 [XFS] Move some code around to prepare for the upcoming extended
attributes format change (attr2).

SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23833a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:33:33 +11:00
David Chinner
e8c8b3a79d [XFS] Introduce two new mount options (nolargeio/largeio) to allow
filesystems to expose the filesystem stripe width in stat(2) rather than
the page cache size. This allows applications requiring high bandwidth to
easily determine the optimum I/O size for the underlying filesystem. The
default is to report the page cache size (i.e. "nolargeio").

SGI-PV: 942818
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23830a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:33:05 +11:00
Nathan Scott
ee34807a65 [XFS] Provide a mechiansm for flushing delalloc before quota reporting.
SGI-PV: 942815
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23829a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:32:38 +11:00
Nathan Scott
c310ab6c07 [XFS] Fix signedness issues in dquot ID handling, allowing uids/gids above
MAXINT

SGI-PV: 942528
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23828a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:31:41 +11:00
Nathan Scott
30dab21abb [XFS] Add a comment about the use of XFS_SIZE_TOKEN_WANT.
SGI-PV: 936331
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23827a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:31:13 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
c86e711ceb [XFS] only mark buffers done when all pages are uptodate in addition
replace PBF_NONE with an inverted PBF_DONE, so it's like all the other
flags.

SGI-PV: 942609
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:199136a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:29:39 +11:00
Eric Sandeen
d0cfb37305 [XFS] Stack footprint reduction for xfs_swapext (used from xfs_fsr)
SGI-PV: 913332
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198926a

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:29:04 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
f538d4da8d [XFS] write barrier support Issue all log sync operations as ordered
writes.  In addition flush the disk cache on fsync if the sync cached
operation didn't sync the log to disk (this requires some additional
bookeping in the transaction and log code). If the device doesn't claim to
support barriers, the filesystem has an extern log volume or the trial
superblock write with barriers enabled failed we disable barriers and
print a warning.  We should probably fail the mount completely, but that
could lead to nasty boot failures for the root filesystem.  Not enabled by
default yet, needs more destructive testing first.

SGI-PV: 912426
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198723a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:26:59 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
739cafd316 [XFS] fix PBF_NONE handling
SGI-PV: 908809
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198669a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:25:51 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
da1650a5d6 [XFS] Add format checking to cmn_err and icmn_err
SGI-PV: 942243
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198658a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:21:35 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
88741a95af [XFS] remove unused pagebuf flags
SGI-PV: 908809
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198656a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:21:14 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
04d8b28416 [XFS] Make sure the threads and shaker in xfs_buf are de-initialized in
reverse startup order

SGI-PV: 942063
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198651a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:15:05 +11:00
Anton Altaparmakov
94b166a7cb Merge branch 'master' of /home/src/linux-2.6/ 2005-11-01 15:51:32 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
3aebf25bdc NTFS: Fix a stupid bug causing writes to non-initialized pages to segfault.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-11-01 15:49:31 +00:00
Andrea Arcangeli
659603ef69 [PATCH] fix __writeback_single_inode WARN_ON
When the inode count is zero in inode writeback, the

	WARN_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_WILL_FREE));

is broken, and needs to test for either I_WILL_FREE|I_FREEING.

When the inode is in I_FREEING state, it's already out of the visibility
of the vm so it can't be freed so it doesn't require the __iget and the
generic_delete_inode path can call the sync internally to the lowlevel
fs callback during the last iput. So the inode being in I_FREEING is
also a valid condition for calling the sync with i_count == 0.

The specific stack trace is this:

  0xc00000007b8fb6e0  0xc00000000010118c  .__writeback_single_inode +0x5c
  0xc00000007b8fb6e0  0xc0000000001014dc (lr) .sync_inode +0x3c
  0xc00000007b8fb790  0xc0000000001014dc  .sync_inode +0x3c
  0xc00000007b8fb820  0xc0000000001a5020  .ext2_sync_inode +0x64
  0xc00000007b8fb8f0  0xc0000000001a65b4  .ext2_truncate +0x3f8
  0xc00000007b8fba40  0xc0000000001a6940  .ext2_delete_inode +0xdc
  0xc00000007b8fbac0  0xc0000000000f7a5c  .generic_delete_inode +0x124
  0xc00000007b8fbb50  0xc0000000000f5fe0  .iput +0xb8
  0xc00000007b8fbbe0  0xc0000000000e9fd4  .sys_unlink +0x2a8
  0xc00000007b8fbd10  0xc00000000001048c  .ret_from_syscall_1 +0x0

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31 14:22:04 -08:00
Anton Altaparmakov
1f04c0a24b Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/ 2005-10-31 10:06:46 +00:00
Paul Mackerras
23fd07750a Merge ../linux-2.6 by hand 2005-10-31 13:37:12 +11:00
Pekka Enberg
ad2c1604da [PATCH] fat: Remove duplicate directory scanning code
This patch removes duplicate directory scanning code from fs/fat/dir.c.  The
two functions that share identical code are fat_readdirx() and
fat_search_long().  This patch also renames fat_readdirx to __fat_readdir().

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9131dd4256 [PATCH] fat: remove the unneeded vfat_find() in vfat_rename()
Now, vfat_rename() is using vfat_find() for sanity check.  This removes that
sanity check, the cost of sanity check is too high.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
451cbaa1c3 [PATCH] fat: cleanup and optimization of checksum
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Tim Schmielau
4e57b68178 [PATCH] fix missing includes
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.

In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch.  This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other.  So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it.  My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Andrew Morton
a3e713b5fd [PATCH] __bread oops fix
If a filesystem passes an idiotic blocksize into bread(), __getblk_slow() will
warn and will return NULL.  We have a report (from Hubert Tonneau
<hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org>) of isofs_fill_super() doing this (passing in
a silly block size) against an unplugged CDROM drive.

But a couple of __getblk_slow() callers forgot to check for the NULL bh, hence
oops.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b3099b48da [PATCH] fs/attr.c: remove BUG()
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2973dfdb87 [PATCH] Test for sb_getblk return value
This patch adds tests for the return value of sb_getblk() in the ext2/3
filesystems.  In fs/buffer.c it is stated that the getblk() function never
fails.  However, it does can return NULL in some situations due to I/O
errors, which may lead us to NULL pointer dereferences

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:26 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
7f04c26d71 [PATCH] fix nr_unused accounting, and avoid recursing in iput with I_WILL_FREE set
list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use);
 		} else {
 			list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode_unused);
+			inodes_stat.nr_unused++;
 		}
 	}
 	wake_up_inode(inode);

Are you sure the above diff is correct? It was added somewhere between
2.6.5 and 2.6.8. I think it's wrong.

The only way I can imagine the i_count to be zero in the above path, is
that I_WILL_FREE is set.  And if I_WILL_FREE is set, then we must not
increase nr_unused.  So I believe the above change is buggy and it will
definitely overstate the number of unused inodes and it should be backed
out.

Note that __writeback_single_inode before calling __sync_single_inode, can
drop the spinlock and we can have both the dirty and locked bitflags clear
here:

		spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
		__wait_on_inode(inode);
		iput(inode);
XXXXXXX
		spin_lock(&inode_lock);
	}
	use inode again here

a construct like the above makes zero sense from a reference counting
standpoint.

Either we don't ever use the inode again after the iput, or the
inode_lock should be taken _before_ executing the iput (i.e. a __iput
would be required). Taking the inode_lock after iput means the iget was
useless if we keep using the inode after the iput.

So the only chance the 2.6 was safe to call __writeback_single_inode
with the i_count == 0, is that I_WILL_FREE is set (I_WILL_FREE will
prevent the VM to free the inode in XXXXX).

Potentially calling the above iput with I_WILL_FREE was also wrong
because it would recurse in iput_final (the second mainline bug).

The below (untested) patch fixes the nr_unused accounting, avoids recursing
in iput when I_WILL_FREE is set and makes sure (with the BUG_ON) that we
don't corrupt memory and that all holders that don't set I_WILL_FREE, keeps
a reference on the inode!

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:26 -08:00
Ben Dooks
381be25458 [PATCH] ext3: sparse fixes
Fix warnings from sparse due to un-declared functions that should either
have a header file or have been declared static

 fs/ext2/bitmap.c:14:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext2/namei.c:92:15: warning: symbol 'ext2_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/bitmap.c:15:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_count_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/namei.c:1013:15: warning: symbol 'ext3_get_parent' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:214:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_get' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:358:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_list' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:630:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_block_find' was not declared. Should it be static?
 fs/ext3/xattr.c:863:1: warning: symbol 'ext3_xattr_ibody_find' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
1291cf4163 [PATCH] fix de_thread() vs do_coredump() deadlock
de_thread() sends SIGKILL to all sub-threads and waits them to die in 'D'
state.  It is possible that one of the threads already dequeued coredump
signal.  When de_thread() unlocks ->sighand->lock that thread can enter
do_coredump()->coredump_wait() and cause a deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
1779381dea [PATCH] fuse: spelling fixes
Correct some typos and inconsistent use of "initialise" vs "initialize" in
comments.  Reported by Ioannis Barkas.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:24 -08:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
5b11687924 [PATCH] Locking problems while EXT3FS_DEBUG on
I noticed some problems while running ext3 with the debug flag set on.
More precisely, I was unable to umount the filesystem.  Some investigation
took me to the patch that follows.

At a first glance , the lock/unlock I've taken out seems really not
necessary, as the main code (outside debug) does not lock the super.  The
only additional danger operations that debug code introduces seems to be
related to bitmap, but bitmap operations tends to be all atomic anyway.

I also took the opportunity to fix 2 spelling errors.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
2384f55f8a [PATCH] coredump_wait() cleanup
This patch deletes pointless code from coredump_wait().

1. It does useless mm->core_waiters inc/dec under mm->mmap_sem,
   but any changes to ->core_waiters have no effect until we drop
   ->mmap_sem.

2. It calls yield() for absolutely unknown reason.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev
e954365971 [PATCH] proc: fix of error path in proc_get_inode()
This patch fixes incorrect error path in proc_get_inode(), when module
can't be get due to being unloaded.  When try_module_get() fails, this
function puts de(!) and still returns inode with non-getted de.

There are still unresolved known bugs in proc yet to be fixed:
- proc_dir_entry tree is managed without any serialization
- create_proc_entry() doesn't setup de->owner anyhow,
   so setting it later manually is inatomic.
- looks like almost all modules do not care whether
   it's de->owner is set...

Signed-Off-By: Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
f12ec44070 [PATCH] fuse: clean up dead code related to nfs exporting
Remove last remains of NFS exportability support.

The code is actually buggy (as reported by Akshat Aranya), since 'alias'
will be leaked if it's non-null and alias->d_flags has DCACHE_DISCONNECTED.

This is not an active bug, since there will never be any disconnected
dentries.  But it's better to get rid of the unnecessary complexity anyway.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
932aeafbe8 [PATCH] fix de_thread vs it_real_fn() deadlock
de_thread() calls del_timer_sync(->real_timer) under ->sighand->siglock.
This is deadlockable, it_real_fn sends a signal and needs this lock too.

Also, delete unneeded ->real_timer.data assignment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:19 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
2f51201662 [PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)
Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead
in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead,
file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object.

The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u

The callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list
becomes f_u.f_list

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:19 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
42e50a5a69 [PATCH] open: cleanup in lookup_flags()
lookup_flags() is only called from the non-create case, so it needn't check
for O_CREAT|O_EXCL.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
a928972864 [PATCH] Don't uselessly export task_struct to userspace in core dumps
task_struct is an internal structure to the kernel with a lot of good
information, that is probably interesting in core dumps.  However there is
no way for user space to know what format that information is in making it
useless.

I grepped the GDB 6.3 source code and NT_TASKSTRUCT while defined is not
used anywhere else.  So I would be surprised if anyone notices it is
missing.

In addition exporting kernel pointers to all the interesting kernel data
structures sounds like the very definition of an information leak.  I
haven't a clue what someone with evil intentions could do with that
information, but in any attack against the kernel it looks like this is the
perfect tool for aiming that attack.

So since NT_TASKSTRUCT is useless as currently defined and is potentially
dangerous, let's just not export it.

(akpm: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> "would be amazed" if anything was
using NT_TASKSTRUCT).

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00