This patch addresses a flaw in LSM, where there is no mediation of readv()
and writev() in for 32-bit compatible apps using a 64-bit kernel.
This bug was discovered and fixed initially in the native readv/writev
code [1], but was not fixed in the compat code. Thanks to Al for spotting
this one.
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/154282/
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
All modifications of ->i_flags in inodes that might be visible to
somebody else must be under ->i_mutex. That patch fixes ext3 ioctl()
setting S_APPEND and friends.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
sbi->s_group_desc is an array of pointers to buffer_head. memcpy() of
buffer size from address of buffer_head is a bad idea - it will generate
junk in any case, may oops if buffer_head is close to the end of slab
page and next page is not mapped and isn't what was intended there.
IOW, ->b_data is missing in that call. Fortunately, result doesn't go
into the primary on-disk data structures, so only backup ones get crap
written to them; that had allowed this bug to remain unnoticed until
now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
sys_splice() moves data to/from pipes with a file input/output. sys_vmsplice()
moves data to a pipe, with the input being a user address range instead.
This uses an approach suggested by Linus, where we can hold partial ranges
inside the pages[] map. Hopefully this will be useful for network
receive support as well.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
BKL does not protect against races if the task may sleep between
checking and setting a value. So move checking of file->private_data
near to setting it in fuse_fill_super().
Found by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
A deadlock was possible, when the last reference to the superblock was
held due to a background request containing a file reference.
Releasing the file would release the vfsmount which in turn would
release the superblock. Since sbput_sem is held during the fput() and
fuse_put_super() tries to acquire this same semaphore, a deadlock
results.
The solution is to move the fput() outside the region protected by
sbput_sem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
This reverts 73ce8355c2 commit.
It was wrong, because it didn't take into account the requirement,
that iput() for background requests must be performed synchronously
with ->put_super(), otherwise active inodes may remain after unmount.
The right solution is to keep the sbput_sem and perform iput() within
the locked region, but move fput() outside sbput_sem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Make the move_from_pipe() actors return number of bytes processed, then
move_from_pipe() can decide more cleverly when to move on to the next
buffer.
This fixes problems with pipe offset and differing file offset.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6-stable:
[CIFS] Fix typo in previous
[CIFS] Readdir fixes to allow search to start at arbitrary position
[CIFS] Use the kthread_ API instead of opencoding lots of hairy code for kernel
[CIFS] Don't allow a backslash in a path component
[CIFS] [CIFS] Do not take rename sem on most path based calls (during
reiserfs_cache_default_acl() should return whether we successfully found
the acl or not. We have to return correct value even if reiserfs_get_acl()
returns error code and not just 0. Otherwise callers such as
reiserfs_mkdir() can unnecessarily lock the xattrs and later functions such
as reiserfs_new_inode() fail to notice that we have already taken the lock
and try to take it again with obvious consequences.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
in directory
Also includes first part of fix to compensate for servers which forget
to return . and .. as well as updates to changelog and cifs readme.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
thread creation and teardown.
It does not move the cifsd thread handling to kthread due to problems
found in testing with wakeup of threads blocked in the socket peek api,
but the other cifs kernel threads now use kthread.
Also cleanup cifs_init to properly unwind when thread creation fails.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Unless Posix paths have been negotiated, the backslash, "\", is not a valid
character in a path component.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6:
SUNRPC: Dead code in net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
NFS: remove needless check in nfs_opendir()
NFS: nfs_show_stats; for_each_possible_cpu(), not NR_CPUS
NFS: make 2 functions static
NFS,SUNRPC: Fix compiler warnings if CONFIG_PROC_FS & CONFIG_SYSCTL are unset
NFS: fix PROC_FS=n compile error
VFS: Fix another open intent Oops
RPCSEC_GSS: fix leak in krb5 code caused by superfluous kmalloc
Local variable res was initialized to 0 - no check needed here.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Convert a for-loop that explicitly references "NR_CPUS" into the
potentially more efficient for_each_possible_cpu() construct.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the call to nfs_intent_set_file() fails to open a file in
nfs4_proc_create(), we should return an error.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[PATCH] splice: fixup writeout path after ->map changes
[PATCH] splice: offset fixes
[PATCH] tee: link_pipe() must be careful when dropping one of the pipe locks
[PATCH] splice: cleanup the SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK handling
[PATCH] splice: close i_size truncate races on read
There are places in the kernel where we look up files in fd tables and
access the file structure without holding refereces to the file. So, we
need special care to avoid the race between looking up files in the fd
table and tearing down of the file in another CPU. Otherwise, one might
see a NULL f_dentry or such torn down version of the file. This patch
fixes those special places where such a race may happen.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In kernel bugzilla #6248 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6248),
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> notes that CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is missing Kconfig
help text.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
While we can currently walk through thread groups, process groups, and
sessions with just the rcu_read_lock, this opens the door to walking the
entire task list.
We already have all of the other RCU guarantees so there is no cost in
doing this, this should be enough so that proc can stop taking the
tasklist lock during readdir.
prev_task was killed because it has no users, and using it will miss new
tasks when doing an rcu traversal.
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>
Since ->map() no longer locks the page, we need to adjust the handling
of those pages (and stealing) a little. This now passes full regressions
again.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
- We need to adjust *ppos for writes as well.
- Copy back modified offset value if one was passed in, similar to
what sendfile does.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
We need to ensure that we only drop a lock that is ordered last, to avoid
ABBA deadlocks with competing processes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
- generic_file_splice_read() more readable and correct
- Don't bail on page allocation with NONBLOCK set, just don't allow
direct blocking on IO (eg lock_page).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Came up through a quick grep for other cases similar to the ftruncate()
one in commit 0a489cb3b6.
Also, add a comment, so that people who read the code understand why we
do what looks like a no-op.
(Again, this won't actually matter to any sane user, since libc will
save and restore the register gcc stomps on, but it's still wrong to
stomp on it)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Gcc thinks it owns the incoming argument stack, but that's not true for
"asmlinkage" functions, and it corrupts the caller-set-up argument stack
when it pushes the third argument onto the stack. Which can result in
%ebx getting corrupted in user space.
Now, normally nobody sane would ever notice, since libc will save and
restore %ebx anyway over the system call, but it's still wrong.
I'd much rather have "asmlinkage" tell gcc directly that it doesn't own
the stack, but no such attribute exists, so we're stuck with our hacky
manual "prevent_tail_call()" macro once more (we've had the same issue
before with sys_waitpid() and sys_wait4()).
Thanks to Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@sub.uni-goettingen.de> for reporting
the issue and testing the fix.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As noted further on the this file, some block devices have a / in their
name, so fix the "block:..." symlink name the same as the /sys/block name.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[BLOCK] delay all uevents until partition table is scanned
Here we delay the annoucement of all block device events until the
disk's partition table is scanned and all partition devices are already
created and sysfs is populated.
We have a bunch of old bugs for removable storage handling where we
probe successfully for a filesystem on the raw disk, but at the
same time the kernel recognizes a partition table and creates partition
devices.
Currently there is no sane way to tell if partitions will show up or not
at the time the disk device is announced to userspace. With the delayed
events we can simply skip any probe for a filesystem on the raw disk when
we find already present partitions.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
It works like this:
Open the file
Read all the contents.
Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works)
When poll returns,
close the file and go to top of loop.
or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'.
Events are signaled by an object manager calling
sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr);
If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which
contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group).
This has a cost of one int per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject,
one int per open file.
The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify
functionality. Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs
attributes as well?
This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action
to be pollable
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
[fuse] Direct I/O should not use fuse_reset_request
[fuse] Don't init request twice
[fuse] Fix accounting the number of waiting requests
[fuse] fix deadlock between fuse_put_super() and request_end()
* 'tee' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()
[PATCH] splice: pass offset around for ->splice_read() and ->splice_write()
This is two distinct changes.
- Not changing our real parents.
- Not changing our ptrace parents.
Not changing our real parents is trivially correct because both tasks
have the same real parents as they are part of a thread group. Now that
we demote the leader to a thread there is no longer any reason to change
it's parentage.
Not changing our ptrace parents is a user visible change if someone
looks hard enough. I don't think user space applications will care or
even notice.
In the practical and I think common case a debugger will have attached
to all of the threads using the same ptrace flags. From my quick skim
of strace and gdb that appears to be the case. Which if true means
debuggers will not notice a change.
Before this point we have already generated a ptrace event in do_exit
that reports the leaders pid has died so de_thread is visible to a
debugger. Which means attempting to hide this case by copying flags
around appears excessive.
By not doing anything it avoids all of the weird locking issues between
de_thread and ptrace attach, and removes one case from consideration for
fixing the ptrace locking.
This only addresses Oleg's first concern with ptrace_attach, that of the
problems caused by reparenting. Oleg's second concern is essentially a
race between ptrace_attach and release_task that causes an oops when we
get to force_sig_specific. There is nothing special about de_thread
with respect to that race.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It's cleaner to allocate a new request, otherwise the uid/gid/pid
fields of the request won't be filled in.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Properly accounting the number of waiting requests was forgotten in
"clean up request accounting" patch.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
A deadlock was possible, when the last reference to the superblock was
held due to a background request containing a file reference.
Releasing the file would release the vfsmount which in turn would
release the superblock. Since sbput_sem is held during the fput() and
fuse_put_super() tries to acquire this same semaphore, a deadlock
results.
The chosen soltuion is to get rid of sbput_sem, and instead use the
spinlock to ensure the referenced inodes/file are released only once.
Since the actual release may sleep, defer these outside the locked
region, but using local variables instead of the structure members.
This is a much more rubust solution.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Basically an in-kernel implementation of tee, which uses splice and the
pipe buffers as an intelligent way to pass data around by reference.
Where the user space tee consumes the input and produces a stdout and
file output, this syscall merely duplicates the data inside a pipe to
another pipe. No data is copied, the output just grabs a reference to the
input pipe data.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
We need not use ->f_pos as the offset for the file input/output. If the
user passed an offset pointer in through sys_splice(), just use that and
leave ->f_pos alone.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
