linux/kernel
Al Viro 7b7b1ace2d [PATCH] saner handling of auto_acct_off() and DQUOT_OFF() in umount
The way we currently deal with quota and process accounting that might
keep vfsmount busy at umount time is inherently broken; we try to turn
them off just in case (not quite correctly, at that) and

  a) pray umount doesn't fail (otherwise they'll stay turned off)
  b) pray nobody doesn anything funny just as we turn quota off

Moreover, LSM provides hooks for doing the same sort of broken logics.

The proper way to deal with that is to introduce the second kind of
reference to vfsmount.  Semantics:

 - when the last normal reference is dropped, all special ones are
   converted to normal ones and if there had been any, cleanup is done.
 - normal reference can be cloned into a special one
 - special reference can be converted to normal one; that's a no-op if
   we'd already passed the point of no return (i.e.  mntput() had
   converted special references to normal and started cleanup).

The way it works: e.g. starting process accounting converts the vfsmount
reference pinned by the opened file into special one and turns it back
to normal when it gets shut down; acct_auto_close() is done when no
normal references are left.  That way it does *not* obstruct umount(2)
and it silently gets turned off when the last normal reference to
vfsmount is gone.  Which is exactly what we want...

The same should be done by LSM module that holds some internal
references to vfsmount and wants to shut them down on umount - it should
make them special and security_sb_umount_close() will be called exactly
when the last normal reference to vfsmount is gone.

quota handling is even simpler - we don't use normal file IO anymore, so
there's no need to hold vfsmounts at all.  DQUOT_OFF() is done from
deactivate_super(), where it really belongs.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 18:18:09 -08:00
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irq [PATCH] more kernel-doc cleanups, additions 2005-11-07 07:53:55 -08:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: remove unused variable 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
acct.c [PATCH] saner handling of auto_acct_off() and DQUOT_OFF() in umount 2005-11-07 18:18:09 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] gfp_t: kernel/* 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] gfp_t: kernel/* 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
capability.c [PATCH] kernel/capability.c: add kerneldoc 2005-07-27 16:26:06 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] kernel: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage 2005-09-10 10:06:37 -07:00
configs.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cpu.c [PATCH] create and destroy cpufreq sysfs entries based on cpu notifiers 2005-10-30 17:37:14 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding 2005-10-30 17:37:22 -08:00
crash_dump.c [PATCH] kernel/crash_dump.c: add kerneldoc 2005-07-27 16:26:06 -07:00
dma.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exec_domain.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exit.c [PATCH] Process Events Connector 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
extable.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] Process Events Connector 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
futex.c [PATCH] FUTEX_WAKE_OP: enhanced error handling 2005-11-07 07:53:38 -08:00
intermodule.c [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc 2005-09-07 16:57:45 -07:00
itimer.c [PATCH] itimer fixes 2005-07-27 16:25:51 -07:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] fix missing includes 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt 2005-06-23 09:45:10 -07:00
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] sched: voluntary kernel preemption 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
kexec.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] Keys: Get rid of warning in kmod.c if keys disabled 2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] Kprobes: preempt_disable/enable() simplification 2005-11-07 07:53:46 -08:00
ksysfs.c [PATCH] Kdump: Export crash notes section address through sysfs 2005-06-25 16:24:51 -07:00
kthread.c [PATCH] Add kthread_stop_sem() 2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
module.c [PATCH] fix remaining missing includes 2005-11-07 07:53:41 -08:00
panic.c [PATCH] Call emergency_reboot from panic 2005-07-26 14:35:43 -07:00
params.c [PATCH] fix missing includes 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
pid.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] posix-timers `unlikely' rejig 2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] posix-timers: use schedule_timeout() in common_nsleep() 2005-10-30 17:37:20 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] unexport console_unblank 2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
profile.c [PATCH] mostly_read data section 2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace() 2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
resource.c [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc 2005-09-07 16:57:45 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] unexport idle_cpu 2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
seccomp.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
signal.c [PATCH] Remove duplicate code in signal.c 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] spinlock consolidation 2005-09-10 10:06:21 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] smp_processor_id() cleanup 2005-06-21 18:46:13 -07:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() 2005-08-01 10:03:56 -07:00
sys.c [PATCH] unexport uts_sem 2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] more kernel-doc cleanups, additions 2005-11-07 07:53:55 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup 2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
timer.c [PATCH] jiffies_64 cleanup 2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
uid16.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
user.c [PATCH] inotify 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
wait.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00