search_dirblock is used to search a dir block, but the code is almost
the same for searching an inline dir.
So create a new fuction search_dir and let search_dirblock call it.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
For "." and "..", we just call filldir by ourselves
instead of iterating the real dir entry.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch let add_dir_entry handle the inline data case. So the
dir is initialized as inline dir first and then we can try to add
some files to it, when the inline space can't hold all the entries,
a dir block will be created and the dir entry will be moved to it.
Also for an inlined dir, "." and ".." are removed and we only use
4 bytes to store the parent inode number. These 2 entries will be
added when we convert an inline dir to a block-based one.
[ Folded in patch from Dan Carpenter to remove an unused variable. ]
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The old add_dirent_to_buf handles all the work related to the
work of adding dir entry to a dir block. Now we have inline data,
so create 2 new function __ext4_find_dest_de and __ext4_insert_dentry
that do the real work and let add_dirent_to_buf call them.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The __ext4_check_dir_entry() function() is used to check whether the
de is over the block boundary. Now with inline data, it could be
within the block boundary while exceeds the inode size. So check this
function to check the overflow more precisely.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently, the initialization of dot and dotdot are encapsulated in
ext4_mkdir and also bond with dir_block. So create a new function
named ext4_init_new_dir and the initialization is moved to
ext4_init_dot_dotdot. Now it will called either in the normal non-inline
case(rec_len of ".." will cover the whole block) or when we converting an
inline dir to a block(rec len of ".." will be the real length). The start
of the next entry is also returned for inline dir usage.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
For delayed allocation mode, we write to inline data if the file
is small enough. And in case of we write to some offset larger
than the inline size, the 1st page is dirtied, so that
ext4_da_writepages can handle the conversion. When the 1st page
is initialized with blocks, the inline part is removed.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
For a normal write case (not journalled write, not delayed
allocation), we write to the inline if the file is small and convert
it to an extent based file when the write is larger than the max
inline size.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Let readpage and readpages handle the case when we want to read an
inlined file.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Implement inline data with xattr.
Now we use "system.data" to store xattr, and the xattr will
be extended if the i_size is increased while we don't release
the space during truncate.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The inline data feature will need some inline xattr functions, so
export them from fs/ext4/xattr.c so that inline.c can use them.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently, in ext4_iget we do a simple check to see whether
there does exist some information starting from the end
of i_extra_size. With inline data added, this procedure
is more complicated. So move it to a new function named
ext4_iget_extra_inode.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit fa77dcfafe introduces block bitmap checksum calculation into
ext4_new_inode() in the case that block group was uninitialized.
However we brelse() the bitmap buffer before we attempt to checksum it
so we have no guarantee that the buffer is still there.
Fix this by releasing the buffer after the possible checksum
computation.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Remove a level of indentation by moving the DIO read and extending
write case to the beginning of the file. This results in no actual
programmatic changes to the file, but makes it easier to
read/understand.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Previously, ext4_extents.h was being included at the end of ext4.h,
which was bad for a number of reasons: (a) it was not being included
in the expected place, and (b) it caused the header to be included
multiple times. There were #ifdef's to prevent this from causing any
problems, but it still was unnecessary.
By moving the function declarations that were in ext4_extents.h to
ext4.h, which is standard practice for where the function declarations
for the rest of ext4.h can be found, we can remove ext4_extents.h from
being included in ext4.h at all, and then we can only include
ext4_extents.h where it is needed in ext4's source files.
It should be possible to move a few more things into ext4.h, and
further reduce the number of source files that need to #include
ext4_extents.h, but that's a cleanup for another day.
Reported-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The memset operation before check can cause a BUG if the memory
allocation failed. Since we are using get_zeroed_age, there is no
need to use memset anyway.
Found by the Spruce system in cooperation with the KEDR Framework.
Signed-off-by: Vahram Martirosyan <vmartirosyan@linuxtesting.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This commit is simple cleanup of fiemap codepath which has not been
included in previous commit to make the changes clearer. In this commit
we rename cbex variable to newex in ext4_fill_fiemap_extents() because
callback is no longer present
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently ext4_ext_walk_space() only takes i_data_sem for read when
searching for the extent at given block with ext4_ext_find_extent().
Then it drops the lock and the extent tree can be changed at will.
However later on we're searching for the 'next' extent, but the extent
tree might already have changed, so the information might not be
accurate.
In fact we can hit BUG_ON(end <= start) if the extent got inserted into
the tree after the one we found and before the block we were searching
for. This has been reproduced by running xfstests 225 in loop on s390x
architecture, but theoretically we could hit this on any other
architecture as well, but probably not as often.
Moreover the extent currently in delayed allocation might be allocated
after we search the extent tree and before we search extent status tree
delayed buffers resulting in those delayed buffers being completely
missed, even though completely written and allocated.
We fix all those problems in several steps:
1. remove unnecessary callback indirection
2. rename functions
ext4_ext_walk_space -> ext4_fill_fiemap_extents
ext4_ext_fiemap_cb -> ext4_find_delayed_extent
3. move fiemap_fill_next_extent() into ext4_fill_fiemap_extents()
4. hold the i_data_sem for:
ext4_ext_find_extent()
ext4_ext_next_allocated_block()
ext4_find_delayed_extent()
5. call fiemap_fill_next_extent after releasing the i_data_sem
6. move path reinitialization into the critical section.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The calls to ext4_jbd2_file_inode() are needed to guarantee that we do
not expose stale data in the data=ordered mode. However, they are not
necessary because in all of the cases where we have newly allocated
blocks in the delayed allocation write path, we immediately submit the
dirty pages for I/O. Hence, we can avoid the overhead of adding the
inode to the list of inodes whose data pages will be to be flushed out
to disk completely during the next commit operation.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_da_block_invalidatepages is missing a pagevec_init(),
which means that pvec->cold contains random garbage.
This affects whether the page goes to the front or
back of the LRU when ->cold makes it to
free_hot_cold_page()
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
During a directory entry lookup of a hashed directory, if the
hash-based lookup functions fail and we fall back to a linear scan,
don't try to verify the dirent checksum on the internal nodes of the
hash tree because they don't store a checksum in a hidden dirent like
the leaf nodes do.
Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If there is no space for a checksum in a directory leaf node,
previously we would use EXT4_ERROR_INODE() which would mark the file
system as inconsistent. While it would be nice to use e2fsck -D, it
certainly isn't required, so just print a warning using
ext4_warning().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
This patch makes ext4 really support SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE flags. Block-mapped
and extent-mapped files are fully implemented together because ext4_map_blocks
hides this differences.
After applying this patch, it will cause a failure in xfstest #285 when the file
is block-mapped due to block-mapped file isn't support fallocate(2).
I had tried to use ext4_ext_walk_space() to retrieve the offset for a
extent-mapped file. But finally I decide to keep using ext4_map_blocks() to
support SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE because ext4_map_blocks() can hide the difference
between block-mapped file and extent-mapped file. Moreover, in next step,
extent status tree will track all extent status, and we can get all mappings
from this tree. So I think that using ext4_map_blocks() is a better choice.
CC: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds some tracepoints in extent status tree.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch lets ext4 maintain extent status tree.
Currently it only tracks delay extent status in extent status tree. When a
delay allocation is issued, the related delay extent will be inserted into
extent status tree. When a delay extent is written out or invalidated, it will
be removed from this tree.
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Let ext4 initialize extent status tree of an inode.
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This patch adds two structures that supports extent status tree, extent_status
and ext4_es_tree. Currently extent_status is used to track a delay extent for
an inode, which record the start block and the length of the delay extent.
ext4_es_tree is used to store all extent_status for an inode in memory.
Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
There are some places in ext4_fill_super() where we would not return
proper error code if something fails. The confusion is caused probably
due to the fact that we have two "kind-of" return variables 'ret'and
'err'.
'ret' is used to return error code from ext4_fill_super() where err is
used to store return values from other functions within ext4_fill_super().
However some places were missing the obligatory 'ret = err'. We could
put the assignment where it is missing, but we can have better "future
proof" solution. Or we could convert the code to use just one, but it
would require more rewrites.
This commit fixes the problem by returning value from 'err' variable if
it is set and 'ret' otherwise in error handling branch of the
ext4_fill_super(). The reasoning is that 'ret' value is often set to
default "-EINVAL" or explicit value, where 'err' is used to store
return value from other functions and should be otherwise zero.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48431
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_xattr_set_acl(), if ext4_journal_start() returns an error,
posix_acl_release() will not be called for 'acl' which may result in a
memory leak.
This patch fixes that.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
729f52c6be introduced function ext4_get_block_write_nolock() that
is very similar to _ext4_get_block(). Eliminate code duplication
by passing different flags to _ext4_get_block()
Tested: xfs tests
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
When ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents(), we will directly return
from ext4_ext_map_blocks(). The trace point of
trace_ext4_ext_map_blocks_exit isn't called, and the user doesn't see
any result. This patch tries to fix this problem.
Meanwhile in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents it returns errors
or the number of allocated blocks. So 'ret' variable can be removed
due to previously modifications.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
When we use trace_ext4_ext/ind_map_blocks_exit, print the value of
map->m_flags in order that we can understand the extent's current
status.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
In trace_ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents we don't care about the
value of map->m_flags because this value is probably 0, and we prefer
to get the value of flags because we can know how to handle this
extent in this function.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We should warn user then the discard request fails. However we need to
exclude -EOPNOTSUPP case since parts of the device might not support it
while other parts can. So print the kernel warning when the error !=
-EOPNOTSUPP is returned from ext4_issue_discard().
We should also handle error cases in batched discard, again excluding
EOPNOTSUPP.
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Notify user when mounting the file system with -o discard option, but
the device does not support discard. Obviously we do not want to fail
the mount or disable the options, because the underlying device might
change in future even without file system remount.
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_handle_release_buffer() was intended to remove journal
write access from a buffer, but it doesn't actually do anything
at all other than add a BUFFER_TRACE point, but it's not reliably
used for that either. Remove all the associated dead code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
I think the whole function could be made prettier, but
that goto really took the cake for too-clever-by-half.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
"overhead" was a write-only variable in this function after commit
952fc18e; we set it to 0 for minixdf, or to sbi->s_overhead if !minixdf,
but never read it again after that.
We need to use it, not sbi->s_overhead, when subtracting out overhead
for f_blocks, or we get the wrong answer for minixdf.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
commit 119c0d4460 changed
ext4_new_inode() such that the inode bitmap was being modified
outside a transaction, which could lead to corruption, and was
discovered when journal_checksum found a bad checksum in the
journal during log replay.
Nix ran into this when using the journal_async_commit mount
option, which enables journal checksumming. The ensuing
journal replay failures due to the bad checksums led to
filesystem corruption reported as the now infamous
"Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug"
[ Changed by tytso to only call ext4_journal_get_write_access() only
when we're fairly certain that we're going to allocate the inode. ]
I've tested this by mounting with journal_checksum and
running fsstress then dropping power; I've also tested by
hacking DM to create snapshots w/o first quiescing, which
allows me to test journal replay repeatedly w/o actually
power-cycling the box. Without the patch I hit a journal
checksum error every time. With this fix it survives
many iterations.
Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Functions generic_file_splice_read and generic_file_splice_write access
the pagecache directly. For block devices these functions must be locked
so that block size is not changed while they are in progress.
This patch is an additional fix for commit b87570f5d3 ("Fix a crash
when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time")
that locked aio_read, aio_write and mmap against block size change.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix for a memory leak in acpi_bind_one() from Jesper Juhl.
* Fix for an error code path memory leak in pm_genpd_attach_cpuidle()
from Jonghwan Choi.
* Fix for smp_processor_id() usage in preemptible code in powernow-k8 from
Andreas Herrmann.
* Fix for a suspend-related memory leak in cpufreq stats from Xiaobing Tu.
* Freezer fix for failure to clear PF_NOFREEZE along with PF_KTHREAD
in flush_old_exec() from Oleg Nesterov.
* acpi_processor_notify() fix from Alan Cox.
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-for-3.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management and ACPI fixes from Rafael J Wysocki:
- Fix for a memory leak in acpi_bind_one() from Jesper Juhl.
- Fix for an error code path memory leak in pm_genpd_attach_cpuidle()
from Jonghwan Choi.
- Fix for smp_processor_id() usage in preemptible code in powernow-k8
from Andreas Herrmann.
- Fix for a suspend-related memory leak in cpufreq stats from Xiaobing
Tu.
- Freezer fix for failure to clear PF_NOFREEZE along with PF_KTHREAD in
flush_old_exec() from Oleg Nesterov.
- acpi_processor_notify() fix from Alan Cox.
* tag 'pm+acpi-for-3.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
ACPI: missing break
freezer: exec should clear PF_NOFREEZE along with PF_KTHREAD
Fix memory leak in cpufreq stats.
cpufreq / powernow-k8: Remove usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
PM / Domains: Fix memory leak on error path in pm_genpd_attach_cpuidle
ACPI: Fix memory leak in acpi_bind_one()
Here are a number of firmware core fixes for 3.7, and some other minor fixes.
And some documentation updates thrown in for good measure.
All have been in the linux-next tree for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here are a number of firmware core fixes for 3.7, and some other minor
fixes. And some documentation updates thrown in for good measure.
All have been in the linux-next tree for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"
* tag 'driver-core-3.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
Documentation:Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/memory.txt
Documentation:Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/booting.txt
Documentation:Chinese translation of Documentation/IRQ.txt
firmware loader: document kernel direct loading
sysfs: sysfs_pathname/sysfs_add_one: Use strlcat() instead of strcat()
dynamic_debug: Remove unnecessary __used
firmware loader: sync firmware cache by async_synchronize_full_domain
firmware loader: let direct loading back on 'firmware_buf'
firmware loader: fix one reqeust_firmware race
firmware loader: cancel uncache work before caching firmware
In commit 800179c9b8 ("This adds symlink and hardlink restrictions to
the Linux VFS"), the new link protections were enabled by default, in
the hope that no actual application would care, despite it being
technically against legacy UNIX (and documented POSIX) behavior.
However, it does turn out to break some applications. It's rare, and
it's unfortunate, but it's unacceptable to break existing systems, so
we'll have to default to legacy behavior.
In particular, it has broken the way AFD distributes files, see
http://www.dwd.de/AFD/
along with some legacy scripts.
Distributions can end up setting this at initrd time or in system
scripts: if you have security problems due to link attacks during your
early boot sequence, you have bigger problems than some kernel sysctl
setting. Do:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks
echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks
to re-enable the link protections.
Alternatively, we may at some point introduce a kernel config option
that sets these kinds of "more secure but not traditional" behavioural
options automatically.
Reported-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Reported-by: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v3.6
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tao Ma