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2007-01-30[PATCH] fuse: fix bug in control filesystem mountMiklos Szeredi
The BUG in fuse_ctl_add_dentry() could be triggered if the control filesystem was unmounted and mounted again while one or more fuse filesystems were present. The fix is to reset the dentry counter in fuse_ctl_kill_sb(). Bug reported by Florent Mertens. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-30[PATCH] knfsd: ratelimit some nfsd messages that are triggered by external ↵NeilBrown
events Also remove {NFSD,RPC}_PARANOIA as having the defines doesn't really add anything. The printks covered by RPC_PARANOIA were triggered by badly formatted packets and so should be ratelimited. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-30[PATCH] fs/lockd/clntlock.c: add missing newlines to dprintk'sAdrian Bunk
This patch adds missing newlines to dprintk's. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-30[PATCH] uml: fix mknodJohannes Stezenbach
Fix UML hostfs mknod(): userspace has differernt dev_t size and encoding than kernel, so extract major/minor and reencode using glibc makedev() macro. Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Acked-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-29[PATCH] Fix try_to_free_buffer() lockingNick Piggin
Fix commit ecdfc9787fe527491baefc22dce8b2dbd5b2908d Not to put too fine a point on it, but in a nutshell... __set_page_dirty_buffers() | try_to_free_buffers() ---------------------------+--------------------------- | spin_lock(private_lock); | drop_bufers() | spin_unlock(private_lock); spin_lock(private_lock) | !page_has_buffers() | spin_unlock(private_lock) | SetPageDirty() | | cancel_dirty_page() oops! Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] ocfs2: fix thinko in ocfs2_backup_super_blkno()Mark Fasheh
Fix a bug which was introduced when I synced up ocfs2_fs.h with ocfs2-tools. We can't do u64/u32 in kernel. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] core-dumping unreadable binaries via PT_INTERPAlexey Dobriyan
Proposed patch to fix #5 in http://www.isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0017-binfmt_elf.txt aka http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1073 To reproduce, do * grab poc at the end of advisory. * add line "eph.p_memsz = 4096;" after "eph.p_filesz = 4096;" where first "4096" is something equal to or greater than 4096. * ./poc /usr/bin/sudo && ls -l Here I get with 2.6.20-rc5: -rw------- 1 ad ad 102400 2007-01-15 19:17 core ---s--x--x 2 root root 101820 2007-01-15 19:15 /usr/bin/sudo Check for MAY_READ like binfmt_misc.c does. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] knfsd: Fix type mismatch with filldir_t used by nfsdNeilBrown
nfsd defines a type 'encode_dent_fn' which is much like 'filldir_t' except that the first pointer is 'struct readdir_cd *' rather than 'void *'. It then casts encode_dent_fn points to 'filldir_t' as needed. This hides any other type mismatches between the two such as the fact that the 'ino' arg recently changed from ino_t to u64. So: get rid of 'encode_dent_fn', get rid of the cast of the function type, change the first arg of various functions from 'struct readdir_cd *' to 'void *', and live with the fact that we have a little less type checking on the calling of these functions now. Less internal (to nfsd) checking offset by more external checking, which is more important. Thanks to Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> for discovering this and providing an initial patch. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] 9p: null terminate error strings for debug printEric Van Hensbergen
We weren't properly NULL terminating protocol error strings for our debug printk resulting in garbage being included in the output when debug was enabled. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] 9p: fix segfault caused by race condition in meta-data operationsEric Van Hensbergen
Running dbench multithreaded exposed a race condition where fid structures were removed while in use. This patch adds semaphores to meta-data operations to protect the fid structure. Some cleanup of error-case handling in the inode operations is also included. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] 9p: fix rename return codeEric Van Hensbergen
9p doesn't handle renames between directories -- however, we were returning EPERM instead of EXDEV when we detected this case. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergren <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] 9p: fix bogus return code checks during initializationEric Van Hensbergen
There is a simple logic error in init_v9fs - the return code checks are reversed. This patch fixes the return code and adds some messages to prevent module initialization from failing silently. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] knfsd: Don't mess with the 'mode' when storing a exclusive-create cookiePeter Staubach
NFS V3 (and V4) support exclusive create by passing a 'cookie' which can get stored with the file. If the file exists but has exactly the right cookie stored, then we assume this is a retransmit and the exclusive create was successful. The cookie is 64bits and is traditionally stored in the mtime and atime fields. This causes a problem with Solaris7 as negative mtime or atime confuse it. So we moved two bits into the mode word instead. But inherited ACLs sometimes overwrite the mode word on create, so this is a problem. So we give up and just store 62 of the 64 bits and assume that is close enough. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] knfsd: fix an NFSD bug with full sized, non-page-aligned readsNeilBrown
NFSd assumes that largest number of pages that will be needed for a request+response is 2+N where N pages is the size of the largest permitted read/write request. The '2' are 1 for the non-data part of the request, and 1 for the non-data part of the reply. However, when a read request is not page-aligned, and we choose to use ->sendfile to send it directly from the page cache, we may need N+1 pages to hold the whole reply. This can overflow and array and cause an Oops. This patch increases size of the array for holding pages by one and makes sure that entry is NULL when it is not in use. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] knfsd: fix setting of ACL server versionsNeilBrown
Due to silly typos, if the nfs versions are explicitly set, no NFSACL versions get enabled. Also improve an error message that would have made this bug a little easier to find. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] Fix NULL ->nsproxy dereference in /proc/*/mountsAlexey Dobriyan
/proc/*/mounstats was fixed, all right, but... To reproduce: while true; do find /proc -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs cat 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null; done BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c printing eip: c01754df *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#28] Modules linked in: af_packet ohci_hcd e1000 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore xfs CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01754df>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.20-rc5 #1) EIP is at mounts_open+0x1c/0xac eax: 00000000 ebx: d5898ac0 ecx: d1d27b18 edx: d1d27a50 esi: e6083e10 edi: d3c87f38 ebp: d5898ac0 esp: d3c87ef0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process cat (pid: 18071, ti=d3c86000 task=f7d5f070 task.ti=d3c86000) Stack: d5898ac0 e6083e10 d3c87f38 c01754c3 c0147c91 c18c52c0 d343f314 d5898ac0 00008000 d3c87f38 ffffff9c c0147e09 d5898ac0 00000000 00000000 c0147e4b 00000000 d3c87f38 d343f314 c18c52c0 c015e53e 00001000 08051000 00000101 Call Trace: [<c01754c3>] mounts_open+0x0/0xac [<c0147c91>] __dentry_open+0xa1/0x18c [<c0147e09>] nameidata_to_filp+0x31/0x3a [<c0147e4b>] do_filp_open+0x39/0x40 [<c015e53e>] seq_read+0x128/0x2aa [<c0147e8c>] do_sys_open+0x3a/0x6d [<c0147efa>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20 [<c0102b76>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 [<c02a0033>] unix_stream_recvmsg+0x3bf/0x4bf ======================= Code: 5d c3 89 d8 e8 06 e0 f9 ff eb bd 0f 0b eb fe 55 57 56 53 89 d5 8b 40 f0 31 d2 e8 02 c1 fa ff 89 c2 85 c0 74 5c 8b 80 48 04 00 00 <8b> 58 0c 85 db 74 02 ff 03 ff 4a 08 0f 94 c0 84 c0 75 74 85 db EIP: [<c01754df>] mounts_open+0x1c/0xac SS:ESP 0068:d3c87ef0 A race with do_exit()'s call to exit_namespaces(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] i386 vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMPRoland McGrath
This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now. It removes the special-case core writing macros, which were not doing the right thing for the vDSO vma anyway. Instead, it uses VM_ALWAYSDUMP in the vma; there is no need for the fixmap page to be installed. It handles the CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO case by making elf_core_dump use the fake vma from get_gate_vma after real vmas in the same way the /proc/PID/maps code does. This changes core dumps so they no longer include the non-PT_LOAD phdrs from the vDSO. I made the change to add them in the first place, but in turned out that nothing ever wanted them there since the advent of NT_AUXV. It's cleaner to leave them out, and just let the phdrs inside the vDSO image speak for themselves. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] Add VM_ALWAYSDUMPRoland McGrath
This patch adds the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag for vm_flags in vm_area_struct. This provides a clean explicit way to have a vma always included in core dumps, as is needed for vDSO's. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26Write back inode data pages even when the inode itself is lockedLinus Torvalds
In __writeback_single_inode(), when we find a locked inode and we're not doing a data-integrity sync, we used to just skip writing entirely, since we didn't want to wait for the inode to unlock. However, there's really no reason to skip writing the data pages, which are likely to be the the bulk of the dirty state anyway (and the main reason why writeback was started for the non-data-integrity case, of course!) Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26Resurrect 'try_to_free_buffers()' VM hackeryLinus Torvalds
It's not pretty, but it appears that ext3 with data=journal will clean pages without ever actually telling the VM that they are clean. This, in turn, will result in the VM (and balance_dirty_pages() in particular) to never realize that the pages got cleaned, and wait forever for an event that already happened. Technically, this seems to be a problem with ext3 itself, but it used to be hidden by 'try_to_free_buffers()' noticing this situation on its own, and just working around the filesystem problem. This commit re-instates that hack, in order to avoid a regression for the 2.6.20 release. This fixes bugzilla 7844: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7844 Peter Zijlstra points out that we should probably retain the debugging code that this removes from cancel_dirty_page(), and I agree, but for the imminent release we might as well just silence the warning too (since it's not a new bug: anything that triggers that warning has been around forever). Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-24[PATCH] NFS: Fix races in nfs_revalidate_mapping()Trond Myklebust
Prevent the call to invalidate_inode_pages2() from racing with file writes by taking the inode->i_mutex across the page cache flush and invalidate. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: [CIFS] Fix oops when Windows server sent bad domain name null terminator [CIFS] cifs sprintf fix [CIFS] Remove 2 unneeded kzalloc casts [CIFS] Update CIFS version number
2007-01-23[PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmappedVladimir Saveliev
This patch fixes a confusion reiserfs has for a long time. On release file operation reiserfs used to try to pack file data stored in last incomplete page of some files into metadata blocks. After packing the page got cleared with clear_page_dirty. It did not take into account that the page may be mmaped into other process's address space. Recent replacement for clear_page_dirty cancel_dirty_page found the confusion with sanity check that page has to be not mapped. The patch fixes the confusion by making reiserfs avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped. reiserfs_mmap and reiserfs_file_release are serialized with mutex in reiserfs specific inode. reiserfs_mmap locks the mutex and sets a bit in reiserfs specific inode flags. reiserfs_file_release checks the bit having the mutex locked. If bit is set - tail packing is avoided. This eliminates a possibility that mmapped page gets cancel_page_dirty-ed. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23[PATCH] fix blk_direct_IO bio preparationChen, Kenneth W
For large size DIO that needs multiple bio, one full page worth of data was lost at the boundary of bio's maximum sector or segment limits. After a bio is full and got submitted. The outer while (nbytes) { ... } loop will allocate a new bio and just march on to index into next page. It just forgets about the page that bio_add_page() rejected when previous bio is full. Fix it by put the rejected page back to pvec so we pick it up again for the next bio. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23[PATCH] blockdev direct_io: fix signedness bugAndrew Morton
size_t is unsigned. IO errors aren't getting through. Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-22Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (84 commits) [JFFS2] debug.h: include <linux/sched.h> for current->pid [MTD] OneNAND: Handle DDP chip boundary during read-while-load [MTD] OneNAND: return ecc error code only when 2-bit ecc occurs [MTD] OneNAND: Implement read-while-load [MTD] OneNAND: fix onenand_wait bug in read ecc error [MTD] OneNAND: release CPU in cycles [MTD] OneNAND: add subpage write support [MTD] OneNAND: fix onenand_wait bug [JFFS2] use the ref_offset macro [JFFS2] Reschedule in loops [JFFS2] Fix error-path leak in summary scan [JFFS2] add cond_resched() when garbage collecting deletion dirent [MTD] Nuke IVR leftovers [MTD] OneNAND: fix oob handling in recent oob patch [MTD] Fix ssfdc blksize typo [JFFS2] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [MTD] Fix SSFDC build for variable blocksize. [MTD] ESB2ROM uses PCI [MTD] of_device-based physmap driver [MTD] Support combined RedBoot FIS directory and configuration area ...
2007-01-22Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: ocfs2: Add backup superblock info to ocfs2_fs.h ocfs2: cleanup ocfs2_iget() errors ocfs2: Directory c/mtime update fixes ocfs2: Don't print errors when following symlinks
2007-01-22[CIFS] Fix oops when Windows server sent bad domain name null terminatorSteve French
Fixes RedHat bug 211672 Windows sends one byte (instead of two) of null to terminate final Unicode string (domain name) in session setup response in some cases - this caused cifs to misalign some informational strings (making it hard to convert from UCS16 to UTF8). Thanks to Shaggy for his help and Akemi Yagi for debugging/testing Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-01-21ocfs2: Add backup superblock info to ocfs2_fs.hMark Fasheh
This synchronizes us with recent ocfs2-tools changes. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-01-21ocfs2: cleanup ocfs2_iget() errorsMark Fasheh
Get rid of some error prints in the ocfs2_iget() path from ocfs2_get_dentry(). NFSD can easily cause us to read stale inodes. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-01-21ocfs2: Directory c/mtime update fixesMark Fasheh
ocfs2 wasn't updating c/mtime on directories during dirent creation/deletion. Fix ocfs2_unlink(), ocfs2_rename() and __ocfs2_add_entry() by adding the proper code to update the struct inode and push the change out to disk. This helps rename/unlink on nfs exported file systems in particular as those clients compare directory time values to avoid a full re-reading a directory which hasn't changed. ocfs2_rename() loses some superfluous error handling as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-01-21ocfs2: Don't print errors when following symlinksMark Fasheh
We shouldn't print errors returned from vfs_follow_link(). This was causing spurious errors to show up in the logs. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-01-21[CIFS] cifs sprintf fixSteve French
Cc: <alert7@xfocus.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-01-21[CIFS] Remove 2 unneeded kzalloc castsSteve French
Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-01-18NTFS: Forgot to bump version number in makefile to 2.1.28...Anton Altaparmakov
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2007-01-18NTFS: 2.1.28 - Fix deadlock reported by Sergey Vlasov due to ntfs_put_inode().Anton Altaparmakov
- Fix deadlock in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_put_inode(). Thanks to Sergey Vlasov for the report and detailed analysis of the deadlock. The fix involved getting rid of ntfs_put_inode() altogether and hence NTFS no longer has a ->put_inode super operation. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2007-01-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
2007-01-13[JFFS2] debug.h: include <linux/sched.h> for current->pidDavid Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-01-11[PATCH] Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphoreDavid Chinner
Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphore so that xfs_freeze -f /mnt/newtest; xfs_freeze -u /mnt/newtest works safely and doesn't produce lockdep warnings. (XFS unlocks the semaphore from a different task, by design. The mutex code warns about this) Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11[PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()Trond Myklebust
NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked. Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page can no longer be dirtied. In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference to the inode or dentry. Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to other nasties. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-10[PATCH] fix linux banner format stringRoman Zippel
Revert previous attempts at messing with the linux banner string and simply use a separate format string for proc. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-10[JFFS2] use the ref_offset macroKyungmin Park
Don't use ref->flash_offset directly in debugging code, use the ref_offset macro instead. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
2007-01-10[JFFS2] Reschedule in loopsArtem Bityutskiy
Make JFFS2 nicer and teach it to call cond_resched() in loops which may be quite large. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
2007-01-06Revert "[PATCH] binfmt_elf: randomize PIE binaries (2nd try)"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 59287c0913cc9a6c75712a775f6c1c1ef418ef3b. Hugh Dickins reports that it causes random failures on x86 with SuSE 10.2, and points out "Isn't that randomization, anywhere from 0x10000 to ELF_ET_DYN_BASE, sure to place the ET_DYN from time to time just where the comment says it's trying to avoid? I assume that somehow results in the error reported." (where the comment in question is the existing comment in the source code about mmap/brk clashes). Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] fix garbage instead of zeroes in UFSEvgeniy Dushistov
Looks like this is the problem, which point Al Viro some time ago: ufs's get_block callback allocates 16k of disk at a time, and links that entire 16k into the file's metadata. But because get_block is called for only a single buffer_head (a 2k buffer_head in this case?) we are only able to tell the VFS that this 2k is buffer_new(). So when ufs_getfrag_block() is later called to map some more data in the file, and when that data resides within the remaining 14k of this fragment, ufs_getfrag_block() will incorrectly return a !buffer_new() buffer_head. I don't see _right_ way to do nullification of whole block, if use inode page cache, some pages may be outside of inode limits (inode size), and will be lost; if use blockdev page cache it is possible to zero real data, if later inode page cache will be used. The simpliest way, as can I see usage of block device page cache, but not only mark dirty, but also sync it during "nullification". I use my simple tests collection, which I used for check that create,open,write,read,close works on ufs, and I see that this patch makes ufs code 18% slower then before. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return valuesEric Sandeen
CVE-2006-5753 is for a case where an inode can be marked bad, switching the ops to bad_inode_ops, which are all connected as: static int return_EIO(void) { return -EIO; } #define EIO_ERROR ((void *) (return_EIO)) static struct inode_operations bad_inode_ops = { .create = bad_inode_create ...etc... The problem here is that the void cast causes return types to not be promoted, and for ops such as listxattr which expect more than 32 bits of return value, the 32-bit -EIO is interpreted as a large positive 64-bit number, i.e. 0x00000000fffffffa instead of 0xfffffffa. This goes particularly badly when the return value is taken as a number of bytes to copy into, say, a user's buffer for example... I originally had coded up the fix by creating a return_EIO_<TYPE> macro for each return type, like this: static int return_EIO_int(void) { return -EIO; } #define EIO_ERROR_INT ((void *) (return_EIO_int)) static struct inode_operations bad_inode_ops = { .create = EIO_ERROR_INT, ...etc... but Al felt that it was probably better to create an EIO-returner for each actual op signature. Since so few ops share a signature, I just went ahead & created an EIO function for each individual file & inode op that returns a value. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] adfs: fix filename handlingJames Bursa
Fix filenames on adfs discs being terminated at the first character greater than 128 (adfs filenames are Latin 1). I saw this problem when using a loopback adfs image on a 2.6.17-rc5 x86_64 machine, and the patch fixed it there. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-02[JFFS2] Fix error-path leak in summary scanAmit Choudhary
Signed-off-by: Amit Choudhary <amit2030@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-12-30Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: ocfs2: export heartbeat thread pid via configfs ocfs2: always unmap in ocfs2_data_convert_worker() ocfs2: ignore NULL vfsmnt in ocfs2_should_update_atime() ocfs2: Allow direct I/O read past end of file ocfs2: don't print error in ocfs2_permission()
2006-12-30[PATCH] ramfs breaks without CONFIG_BLOCKDimitri Gorokhovik
ramfs doesn't provide the .set_dirty_page a_op, and when the BLOCK layer is not configured in, 'set_page_dirty' makes a call via a NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>