UFS calls 'ufs_write_super()' from 'ufs_put_super()' in order to write the
superblocks to the media. However, it is not needed because VFS calls
'->sync_fs()' before calling '->put_super()' - so by the time we are in
'ufs_write_super()', the superblocks are already synchronized.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It does not look like sysv FS needs 'write_super()' at all, because all it
does is a timestamp update. I cannot test this patch, because this
file-system is so old and probably has not been used by anyone for years,
so there are no tools to create it in Linux. But from the code I see that
marking the superblock as dirty is basically marking the superblock buffers as
drity and then setting the s_dirt flag. And when 'write_super()' is executed to
handle the s_dirt flag, we just update the timestamp and again mark the
superblock buffer as dirty. Seems pointless.
It looks like we can update the timestamp more opprtunistically - on unmount
or remount of sync, and nothing should change.
Thus, this patch removes 'sysv_write_super()' and 's_dirt'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to call 'sysv_write_super()' from 'sysv_remount()',
because VFS has called 'sysv_sync_fs()' before calling '->remount()'.
So remove it. Remove also '(un)lock_super()' which obvioulsy is becoming
useless in this function.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to call 'sysv_write_super()' from 'sysv_put_super()',
because VFS has called 'sysv_sync_fs()' before calling '->put_super()'.
So remove it.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch makes hfs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an 'sb' VFS superblock back-reference to the 'struct hfs_sb_info' data
structure - we will need to find the VFS superblock from a
'struct hfs_sb_info' object in the next patch, so this change is jut a
preparation.
Remove few useless newlines while on it.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We have the following pattern in 2 places in HFS
if (!RDONLY)
hfs_mdb_commit();
This patch pushes the RDONLY check down to 'hfs_mdb_commit()'. This will
make the following patches a bit simpler.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
HFS calls 'hfs_write_super()' from 'hfs_put_super()' in order to write the MDB
to the media. However, it is not needed because VFS calls '->sync_fs()' before
calling '->put_super()' - so by the time we are in 'hfs_write_super()', the MDB
is already synchronized.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Stop using lock_super for serializing the MDB changes - use the buffer-head own
lock instead. Tested with fsstress.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
HFS uses 'lock_super()'/'unlock_super()' around 'hfs_mdb_commit()' in order
to serialize MDB (Master Directory Block) changes. Push it down to
'hfs_mdb_commit()' in order to simplify the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch makes hfsplus stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This check is useless because we always have 'sb->s_fs_info' to be non-NULL.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Print correct function name in the debugging print of the
'hfsplus_sync_fs()' function.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... because it is used only in fs/hfsplus/super.c.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers
(and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt).
We are guaranteed that __fput() will be done before we return
to userland (or exit). Note that for fput() from a kernel
thread we get an async behaviour; it's almost always OK, but
sometimes you might need to have __fput() completed before
you do anything else. There are two mechanisms for that -
a general barrier (flush_delayed_fput()) and explicit
__fput_sync(). Both should be used with care (as was the
case for fput() from kernel threads all along). See comments
in fs/file_table.c for details.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Split inode_permission() into inode- and superblock-dependent parts.
This is aimed at unionmounts where the superblock from the upper layer has to
be checked rather than the superblock from the lower layer as the upper layer
may be writable, thus allowing an unwritable file from the lower layer to be
copied up and modified.
Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (Further development)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called. They could also be passed to the
compare function.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add comments describing what the directions "up" and "down" mean and ref count
handling to the VFS mount following family of functions.
Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com> (Original author)
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
copy_tree() can theoretically fail in a case other than ENOMEM, but always
returns NULL which is interpreted by callers as -ENOMEM. Change it to return
an explicit error.
Also change clone_mnt() for consistency and because union mounts will add new
error cases.
Thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> for a bug fix.
[AV: folded braino fix by Dan Carpenter]
Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Valerie Aurora <valerie.aurora@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Make the chown() and lchown() syscalls jump to the fchownat() syscall with the
appropriate extra arguments.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
we want to take it out of mark_files_ro() reach *before* we start
checking if we ought to drop write access.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add a helper that abstracts out the jump to an already parsed struct path
from ->follow_link operation from procfs. Not only does this clean up
the code by moving the two sides of this game into a single helper, but
it also prepares for making struct nameidata private to namei.c
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Currently the non-nd_set_link based versions of ->follow_link are expected
to do a path_put(&nd->path) on failure. This calling convention is unexpected,
undocumented and doesn't match what the nd_set_link-based instances do.
Move the path_put out of the only non-nd_set_link based ->follow_link
instance into the caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
a) ->d_iput() is wrong here - what we do to inode is completely usual, it's
dentry->d_fsdata that we want to drop. Just use ->d_release().
b) switch to ->s_d_op - no need to play with d_set_d_op()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
all callers want the same thing, actually - a kinda-sorta analog of
kern_path_create(). I.e. they want parent vfsmount/dentry (with
->i_mutex held, to make sure the child dentry is still their child)
+ the child dentry.
Signed-off-by Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Since commit 197e37d9, the banner comment on lookup_open() no longer matches
what the function returns. It used to return a struct file pointer or NULL and
now it returns an integer and is passed the struct file pointer it is to use
amongst its arguments. Update the comment to reflect this.
Also add a banner comment to atomic_open().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Just pass struct file *. Methods are happier that way...
There's no need to return struct file * from finish_open() now,
so let it return int. Next: saner prototypes for parts in
namei.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Change of calling conventions:
old new
NULL 1
file 0
ERR_PTR(-ve) -ve
Caller *knows* that struct file *; no need to return it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... and let finish_open() report having opened the file via that sucker.
Next step: don't modify od->filp at all.
[AV: FILE_CREATE was already used by cifs; Miklos' fix folded]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Perform open_check_o_direct() in a common place in do_last after opening the
file.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move the lookup retry logic to the bottom of the function to make the normal
case simpler to read.
Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Consistently use bool for boolean values in do_last().
Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
All users of open intents have been converted to use ->atomic_{open,create}.
This patch gets rid of nd->intent.open and related infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic open+create
operation implemented via ->create. No functionality is changed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic lookup+open+create
operation implemented via ->lookup and ->create operations.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
What was the purpose of this?
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic lookup+open+create
operation implemented via ->lookup and ->create operations.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an ->atomic_open implementation which replaces the atomic open+create
operation implemented via ->create. No functionality is changed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
is_atomic_open() is now only used by nfs4_lookup_revalidate() to check whether
it's okay to skip normal revalidation.
It does a racy check for mount read-onlyness and falls back to normal
revalidation if the open would fail. This makes little sense now that this
function isn't used for determining whether to actually open the file or not.
The d_mountpoint() check still makes sense since it is an indication that we
might be following a mount and so open may not revalidate the dentry.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Instead check LOOKUP_EXCL in nd->flags, which is basically what the open intent
flags were used for.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Don't pass nfs_open_context() to ->create(). Only the NFS4 implementation
needed that and only because it wanted to return an open file using open
intents. That task has been replaced by ->atomic_open so it is not necessary
anymore to pass the context to the create rpc operation.
Despite nfs4_proc_create apparently being okay with a NULL context it Oopses
somewhere down the call chain. So allocate a context here.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Replace NFS4 specific ->lookup implementation with ->atomic_open impelementation
and use the generic nfs_lookup for other lookups.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add a new inode operation which is called on the last component of an open.
Using this the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in one
atomic operation. If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type turned out to
be wrong) it may signal this by returning NULL instead of an open struct file
pointer.
i_op->atomic_open() is only called if the last component is negative or needs
lookup. Handling cached positive dentries here doesn't add much value: these
can be opened using f_op->open(). If the cached file turns out to be invalid,
the open can be retried, this time using ->atomic_open() with a fresh dentry.
For now leave the old way of using open intents in lookup and revalidate in
place. This will be removed once all the users are converted.
David Howells noticed that if ->atomic_open() opens the file but does not create
it, handle_truncate() will be called on it even if it is not a regular file.
Fix this by checking the file type in this case too.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Copy __lookup_hash() into lookup_open(). The next patch will insert the atomic
open call just before the real lookup.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Split out lookup + maybe create from do_last(). This is the part under i_mutex
protection.
The function is called lookup_open() and returns a filp even though the open
part is not used yet.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Make the slow lookup part of O_CREAT and non-O_CREAT opens common.
This allows atomic_open to be hooked into the slow lookup part.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Check O_CREAT on the slow lookup paths where necessary. This allows the rest to
be shared with plain open.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
no need for kludgy "set cookie to ERR_PTR(...) because we failed
before we did actual ->follow_link() and want to suppress put_link()",
no pointless check in put_link() itself.
Callers checked if follow_link() has failed anyway; might as well
break out of their loops if that happened, without bothering
to call put_link() first.
[AV: folded fixes from hch]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
don't rely on proc_mounts->m being the first field; container_of()
is there for purpose. No need to bother with ->private, while
we are at it - the same container_of will do nicely.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
it's enough to set ->mnt_ns of internal vfsmounts to something
distinct from all struct mnt_namespace out there; then we can
just use the check for ->mnt_ns != NULL in the fast path of
mntput_no_expire()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
READ is 0, so the result of the bit-and operation is 0. Rewrite with == as
done elsewhere in the same file.
This problem was found using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/).
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch makes affs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.
The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an 'sb' VFS superblock back-reference to the 'struct affs_sb_info' data
structure - we will need to find the VFS superblock from a 'struct
affs_sb_info' object in the next patch, so this change is jut a preparation.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The VFS's 'lock_super()' and 'unlock_super()' calls are deprecated and unwanted
and just wait for a brave knight who'd kill them. This patch makes AFFS stop
using them and use the buffer-head's own lock instead.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
AFFS wants to serialize the superblock (the root block in AFFS terms) updates
and uses 'lock_super()/unlock_super()' for these purposes. This patch pushes the
locking down to the 'affs_commit_super()' from the callers.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to write out the superblock from '->remount_fs()' because
VFS has already called '->sync_fs()' by this time and the superblock has
already been written out. Thus, remove the 'affs_write_super()'
infocation from 'affs_remount()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We do not need to write out the superblock from '->put_super()' because VFS has
already called '->sync_fs()' by this time and the superblock has already been
written out. Thus, remove the 'affs_commit_super()' infocation from
'affs_put_super()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
AFFS stores values '1' and '2' in 'bm_flags', and I fail to see any logic when
it prefers one or another. AFFS writes '1' only from '->put_super()', while
'->sync_fs()' and '->write_super()' store value '2'. So on the first glance,
it looks like we want to have '1' if we unmount. However, this does not really
happen in these cases:
1. superblock is written via 'write_super()' then we unmount;
2. we re-mount R/O, then unmount.
which are quite typical.
I could not find good documentation describing this field, except of one random
piece of documentation in the internet which says that -1 means that the root
block is valid, which is not consistent with what we have in the Linux AFFS
driver.
Jan Kara commented on this: "I have some vague recollection that on Amiga
boolean was usually encoded as: 0 == false, ~0 == -1 == true. But it has been
ages..."
Thus, my conclusion is that value of '1' is as good as value of '2' and we can
just always use '2'. An Jan Kara suggested to go further: "generally bm_flags
handling looks strange. If they are 0, we mount fs read only and thus cannot
change them. If they are != 0, we write 2 there. So IMHO if you just removed
bm_flags setting, nothing will really happen."
So this patch removes the bm_flags setting completely. This makes the "clean"
argument of the 'affs_commit_super()' function unneeded, so it is also removed.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This can be trivially triggered from userspace by passing in something unexpected.
kernel BUG at fs/locks.c:1468!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
RIP: 0010:generic_setlease+0xc2/0x100
Call Trace:
__vfs_setlease+0x35/0x40
fcntl_setlease+0x76/0x150
sys_fcntl+0x1c6/0x810
system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.2+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 080399aaaf ("block: don't mark buffers beyond end of disk as
mapped") exposed a bug in __getblk_slow that causes mount to hang as it
loops infinitely waiting for a buffer that lies beyond the end of the
disk to become uptodate.
The problem was initially reported by Torsten Hilbrich here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/18/54
and also reported independently here:
http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=4511
and then Richard W.M. Jones and Marcos Mello noted a few separate
bugzillas also associated with the same issue. This patch has been
confirmed to fix:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835019
The main problem is here, in __getblk_slow:
for (;;) {
struct buffer_head * bh;
int ret;
bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;
ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
if (ret < 0)
return NULL;
if (ret == 0)
free_more_memory();
}
__find_get_block does not find the block, since it will not be marked as
mapped, and so grow_buffers is called to fill in the buffers for the
associated page. I believe the for (;;) loop is there primarily to
retry in the case of memory pressure keeping grow_buffers from
succeeding. However, we also continue to loop for other cases, like the
block lying beond the end of the disk. So, the fix I came up with is to
only loop when grow_buffers fails due to memory allocation issues
(return value of 0).
The attached patch was tested by myself, Torsten, and Rich, and was
found to resolve the problem in call cases.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.0+
[ Jens is on vacation, taking this directly - Linus ]
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Stable Notes: this patch requires backport to 3.0, 3.2 and 3.3.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fat_encode_fh() can fetch an invalid i_pos value on systems where 64-bit
accesses are not atomic. Make it use the same accessor as the rest of the
FAT code.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Magnani <steve@digidescorp.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Artem Bityutskiy