To avoid potential problems with an empty /dev open /dev/console
from rootfs instead of waiting to mount our root filesystem and
mounting it there. This effectively guarantees that there will
be a device node, and it won't be on a filesystem that we will
ever unmount, so there are no issues with leaving /dev/console
open and pinning the filesystem.
This is actually more effective than automatically mounting
devtmpfs on /dev because it removes removes the occasionally
problematic assumption that /dev/console exists from the boot
code.
With this patch I was able to throw busybox on my /boot partition
(which has no /dev directory) and boot into userspace without
problems.
The only possible negative consequence I can think of is that
someone out there deliberately used did not use a character device
that is major 5 minor 2 for /dev/console. Does anyone know of a
situation in which that could make sense?
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... postponing assignments until they're needed. Doesn't change code size.
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It reduces code size:
text data bss dec hex filename
9925 72 16 10013 271d ipc/mqueue-BEFORE.o
9885 72 16 9973 26f5 ipc/mqueue-AFTER.o
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Code size reduction:
text data bss dec hex filename
9941 72 16 10029 272d ipc/mqueue-BEFORE.o
9925 72 16 10013 271d ipc/mqueue-AFTER.o
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... and abort earlier if we couldn't allocate the message pointers array,
avoiding the u->mq_bytes accounting logic.
It reduces code size:
text data bss dec hex filename
9949 72 16 10037 2735 ipc/mqueue-BEFORE.o
9941 72 16 10029 272d ipc/mqueue-AFTER.o
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
rehashing the negative placeholder opens a race with d_lookup();
we unhash it almost immediately (by d_move()), but the race
window is there. Since d_move() doesn't rely on target being
hashed, we don't need that d_rehash() at all.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add a new UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2). This is needed to prevent
symlink attacks in unprivileged unmounts (fuse, samba, ncpfs).
Additionally, return -EINVAL if an unknown flag is used (and specify
an explicitly unused flag: UMOUNT_UNUSED). This makes it possible for
the caller to determine if a flag is supported or not.
CC: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
CC: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It hadn't been needed since we'd sanitized the logics in
mark_mounts_for_expiry() (which, in turn, used to be a
rudiment of bad old times when namespace_sem was per-ns).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
passing *any* namespace root to __d_path() as root is equivalent
to just passing it {NULL, NULL}; no need to bother with finding
the root of our namespace in there.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
(mnt,mnt_mountpoint) pair is conceptually wrong; if you want
to use it for generating pathname and for nothing else *and*
if you know that vfsmount tree is unchanging, you can get
away with that, but the right solution for that is (mnt,mnt_root).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The handling of mount flags in set_mnt_shared() got a little tangled
up during previous cleanups, with the following problems:
* MNT_PNODE_MASK is defined as a literal constant when it should be a
bitwise xor of other MNT_* flags
* set_mnt_shared() clears and then sets MNT_SHARED (part of MNT_PNODE_MASK)
* MNT_PNODE_MASK could use a comment in mount.h
* MNT_PNODE_MASK is a terrible name, change to MNT_SHARED_MASK
This patch fixes these problems.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
No one is calling this anymore as everyone has switched to
invalidate_mapping_pages long time ago. Also update a few
references to it in comments. nfs has two more, but I can't
easily figure what they are actually referring to, so I left
them as-is.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
re-order structure super_block to remove 16 bytes of alignment padding
on 64bit builds.
This shrinks the size of super_block from 712 to 696 bytes so requiring
one fewer 64 byte cache lines.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
-----
patch against 2.6.33-rc5
compiled & tested on x86_64 AMDX2 desktop machine.
I've been running with this patch applied for several weeks with no
problems.
regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
path to mnt/mnt->mnt_root is no worse than that to
mnt->mnt_parent/mnt->mnt_mountpoint *and* needs no
pinning the sucker down (mnt is not going away and
mnt->mnt_root won't change)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* document locking
* add the missing part of data structure invariants (relationship
between mnt_share and mnt_slave lists in case of a peer group
among slaves).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
First of all, get_source() never results in CL_PROPAGATION
alone. We either get CL_MAKE_SHARED (for the continuation
of peer group) or CL_SLAVE (slave that is not shared) or both
(beginning of peer group among slaves). Massage the code to
make that explicit, kill CL_PROPAGATION test in clone_mnt()
(nothing sets CL_MAKE_SHARED without CL_PROPAGATION and in
clone_mnt() we are checking CL_PROPAGATION after we'd found
that there's no CL_SLAVE, so the check for CL_MAKE_SHARED
would do just as well).
Fix comments, while we are at it...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Invalidate sb->s_bdev on remount,ro.
Fixes a problem reported by Jorge Boncompte who is seeing corruption
trying to snapshot a minix filesystem image. Some filesystems modify
their metadata via a path other than the bdev buffer cache (eg. they may
use a private linear mapping for their metadata, or implement directories
in pagecache, etc). Also, file data modifications usually go to the bdev
via their own mappings.
These updates are not coherent with buffercache IO (eg. via /dev/bdev)
and never have been. However there could be a reasonable expectation that
after a mount -oremount,ro operation then the buffercache should
subsequently be coherent with previous filesystem modifications.
So invalidate the bdev mappings on a remount,ro operation to provide a
coherency point.
The problem was exposed when we switched the old rd to brd because old rd
didn't really function like a normal block device and updates to rd via
mappings other than the buffercache would still end up going into its
buffercache. But the same problem has always affected other "normal"
block devices, including loop.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair comment layout]
Reported-by: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
Tested-by: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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>
Cleanup EXPORT* macros according to Documantation/CodingStyle.
Move EXPORT* macros to the line immediately after the closing
function brace.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_symlink);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_mkdir);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(create_proc_entry);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_create_data);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_proc_entry);
Those EXPORT_SYMBOL shouldn't be in fs/proc/root.c,
should be in fs/proc/generic.c.
Signed-off-by: Helight.Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Remove the EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL of simple_prepare_write
Collapse simple_prepare_write into it's only caller, though
making it simpler and clearer to understand.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* simple_commit_write was only called by simple_write_end.
Open coding it makes it tiny bit less heavy on the arithmetic and
much more readable.
* While at it use zero_user() for clearing a partial page.
* While at it add a docbook comment for simple_write_end.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This reverts commit 213614d583.
Alas, ->d_revalidate() can't rely on ->lookup() finishing what
it's started; if d_alloc() in do_lookup() fails, we are not going
to call ->lookup() at all.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Eric W. Biederman