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Joel Becker
70526b6744 [PATCH] configfs: Pin configfs subsystems separately from new config_items.
configfs_mkdir() creates a new item by calling its parent's
->make_item/group() functions.  Once that object is created,
configfs_mkdir() calls try_module_get() on the new item's module.  If it
succeeds, the module owning the new item cannot be unloaded, and
configfs is safe to reference the item.

If the item and the subsystem it belongs to are part of the same module,
the subsystem is also pinned.  This is the common case.

However, if the subsystem is made up of multiple modules, this may not
pin the subsystem.  Thus, it would be possible to unload the toplevel
subsystem module while there is still a child item.  Thus, we now
try_module_get() the subsystem's module.  This only really affects
children of the toplevel subsystem group.  Deeper children already have
their parents pinned.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:13 -07:00
Louis Rilling
99cefda42a [PATCH] configfs: Fix open directory making rmdir() fail
When checking for user-created elements under an item to be removed by rmdir(),
configfs_detach_prep() counts fake configfs_dirents created by dir_open() as
user-created and fails when finding one. It is however perfectly valid to remove
a directory that is open.

Simply make configfs_detach_prep() skip fake configfs_dirent, like it already
does for attributes, and like detach_groups() does.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:13 -07:00
Louis Rilling
2e2ce171c3 [PATCH] configfs: Lock new directory inodes before removing on cleanup after failure
Once a new configfs directory is created by configfs_attach_item() or
configfs_attach_group(), a failure in the remaining initialization steps leads
to removing a directory which inode the VFS may have already accessed.

This commit adds the necessary inode locking to safely remove configfs
directories while cleaning up after a failure. As an advantage, the locking
rules of populate_groups() and detach_groups() become the same: the caller must
have the group's inode mutex locked.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:13 -07:00
Louis Rilling
2a109f2a41 [PATCH] configfs: Prevent userspace from creating new entries under attaching directories
process 1: 					process 2:
configfs_mkdir("A")
  attach_group("A")
    attach_item("A")
      d_instantiate("A")
    populate_groups("A")
      mutex_lock("A")
      attach_group("A/B")
        attach_item("A")
          d_instantiate("A/B")
						mkdir("A/B/C")
						  do_path_lookup("A/B/C", LOOKUP_PARENT)
						    ok
						  lookup_create("A/B/C")
						    mutex_lock("A/B")
						    ok
						  configfs_mkdir("A/B/C")
						    ok
      attach_group("A/C")
        attach_item("A/C")
          d_instantiate("A/C")
        populate_groups("A/C")
          mutex_lock("A/C")
          attach_group("A/C/D")
            attach_item("A/C/D")
              failure
          mutex_unlock("A/C")
          detach_groups("A/C")
            nothing to do
						mkdir("A/C/E")
						  do_path_lookup("A/C/E", LOOKUP_PARENT)
						    ok
						  lookup_create("A/C/E")
						    mutex_lock("A/C")
						    ok
						  configfs_mkdir("A/C/E")
						    ok
        detach_item("A/C")
        d_delete("A/C")
      mutex_unlock("A")
      detach_groups("A")
        mutex_lock("A/B")
        detach_group("A/B")
	  detach_groups("A/B")
	    nothing since no _default_ group
          detach_item("A/B")
        mutex_unlock("A/B")
        d_delete("A/B")
    detach_item("A")
    d_delete("A")

Two bugs:

1/ "A/B/C" and "A/C/E" are created, but never removed while their parent are
removed in the end. The same could happen with symlink() instead of mkdir().

2/ "A" and "A/C" inodes are not locked while detach_item() is called on them,
   which may probably confuse VFS.

This commit fixes 1/, tagging new directories with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING before
building the inode and instantiating the dentry, and validating the whole
group+default groups hierarchy in a second pass by clearing
CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING.
	mkdir(), symlink(), lookup(), and dir_open() simply return -ENOENT if
called in (or linking to) a directory tagged with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING. This
does not prevent userspace from calling stat() successfuly on such directories,
but this prevents userspace from adding (children to | symlinking from/to |
read/write attributes of | listing the contents of) not validated items. In
other words, userspace will not interact with the subsystem on a new item until
the new item creation completes correctly.
	It was first proposed to re-use CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR instead of a new
flag CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING, but this generated conflicts when checking the
target of a new symlink: a valid target directory in the middle of attaching
a new user-created child item could be wrongly detected as being attached.

2/ is fixed by next commit.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:13 -07:00
Louis Rilling
9a73d78cda [PATCH] configfs: Fix failing symlink() making rmdir() fail
On a similar pattern as mkdir() vs rmdir(), a failing symlink() may make rmdir()
fail for the symlink's parent and the symlink's target as well.

failing symlink() making target's rmdir() fail:

	process 1:				process 2:
	symlink("A/S" -> "B")
	  allow_link()
	  create_link()
	    attach to "B" links list
						rmdir("B")
						  detach_prep("B")
						    error because of new link
	    configfs_create_link("A", "S")
	      error (eg -ENOMEM)

failing symlink() making parent's rmdir() fail:

	process 1:				process 2:
	symlink("A/D/S" -> "B")
	  allow_link()
	  create_link()
	    attach to "B" links list
	    configfs_create_link("A/D", "S")
	      make_dirent("A/D", "S")
						rmdir("A")
						  detach_prep("A")
						    detach_prep("A/D")
						      error because of "S"
	      create("S")
	        error (eg -ENOMEM)

We cannot use the same solution as for mkdir() vs rmdir(), since rmdir() on the
target cannot wait on the i_mutex of the new symlink's parent without risking a
deadlock (with other symlink() or sys_rename()). Instead we define a global
mutex protecting all configfs symlinks attachment, so that rmdir() can avoid the
races above.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:13 -07:00
Louis Rilling
4768e9b18d [PATCH] configfs: Fix symlink() to a removing item
The rule for configfs symlinks is that symlinks always point to valid
config_items, and prevent the target from being removed. However,
configfs_symlink() only checks that it can grab a reference on the target item,
without ensuring that it remains alive until the symlink is correctly attached.

This patch makes configfs_symlink() fail whenever the target is being removed,
using the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING flag set by configfs_detach_prep() and
protected by configfs_dirent_lock.

This patch introduces a similar (weird?) behavior as with mkdir failures making
rmdir fail: if symlink() races with rmdir() of the parent directory (or its
youngest user-created ancestor if parent is a default group) or rmdir() of the
target directory, and then fails in configfs_create(), this can make the racing
rmdir() fail despite the concerned directory having no user-created entry (resp.
no symlink pointing to it or one of its default groups) in the end.
This behavior is fixed in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:12 -07:00
Joel Becker
dacdd0e047 [PATCH] configfs: Include linux/err.h in linux/configfs.h
We now use PTR_ERR() in the ->make_item() and ->make_group() operations.
Folks including configfs.h need err.h.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-07-31 16:21:12 -07:00
Joel Becker
a6795e9ebb configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return ERR_PTR() values.  These errors are
bubbled up appropriately.  NULL returns are changed to -ENOMEM for
compatibility.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

This is a rework of reverted commit 11c3b79218.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-17 15:21:29 -07:00
Joel Becker
f89ab8619e Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors."
This reverts commit 11c3b79218.  The code
will move to PTR_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-17 14:53:48 -07:00
Louis Rilling
e752065175 configfs: call drop_link() to cleanup after create_link() failure
When allow_link() succeeds but create_link() fails, the subsystem is not
informed of the failure.

This patch fixes this by calling drop_link() on create_link() failures.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:16 -07:00
Joel Becker
11c3b79218 configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return an int.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:16 -07:00
Louis Rilling
6d8344baee configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() fail
When fixing the rename() vs rmdir() deadlock, we stopped locking default groups'
inodes in configfs_detach_prep(), letting racing mkdir() in default groups
proceed concurrently. This enables races like below happen, which leads to a
failing mkdir() making rmdir() fail, despite the group to remove having no
user-created directory under it in the end.

	process A: 			process B:
	/* PWD=A/B */
	mkdir("C")
	  make_item("C")
	  attach_group("C")
					rmdir("A")
					  detach_prep("A")
					    detach_prep("B")
					      error because of "C"
					  return -ENOTEMPTY
	    attach_group("C/D")
	      error (eg -ENOMEM)
	  return -ENOMEM

This patch prevents such scenarii by making rmdir() wait as long as
detach_prep() fails because a racing mkdir() is in the middle of attach_group().
To achieve this, mkdir() sets a flag CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR in parent's
configfs_dirent before calling attach_group(), and clears the flag once
attach_group() is done. detach_prep() fails with -EAGAIN whenever the flag is
hit and returns the guilty inode's mutex so that rmdir() can wait on it.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:16 -07:00
Louis Rilling
b3e76af874 configfs: Fix deadlock with racing rmdir() and rename()
This patch fixes the deadlock between racing sys_rename() and configfs_rmdir().

The idea is to avoid locking i_mutexes of default groups in
configfs_detach_prep(), and rely instead on the new configfs_dirent_lock to
protect against configfs_dirent's linkage mutations. To ensure that an mkdir()
racing with rmdir() will not create new items in a to-be-removed default group,
we make configfs_new_dirent() check for the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING flag right
before linking the new dirent, and return error if the flag is set. This makes
racing mkdir()/symlink()/dir_open() fail in places where errors could already
happen, resp. in (attach_item()|attach_group())/create_link()/new_dirent().

configfs_depend() remains safe since it locks all the path from configfs root,
and is thus mutually exclusive with rmdir().

An advantage of this is that now detach_groups() unconditionnaly takes the
default groups i_mutex, which makes it more consistent with populate_groups().

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:16 -07:00
Louis Rilling
107ed40bd0 configfs: Make configfs_new_dirent() return error code instead of NULL
This patch makes configfs_new_dirent return negative error code instead of NULL,
which will be useful in the next patch to differentiate ENOMEM from ENOENT.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:16 -07:00
Louis Rilling
5301a77da2 configfs: Protect configfs_dirent s_links list mutations
Symlinks to a config_item are listed under its configfs_dirent s_links, but the
list mutations are not protected by any common lock.

This patch uses the configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to add the necessary
protection.

Note: we should also protect the list_empty() test in configfs_detach_prep() but
1/ the lock should not be released immediately because nothing would prevent the
list from being filled after a successful list_empty() test, making the problem
tricky,
2/ this will be solved by the rmdir() vs rename() deadlock bugfix.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:16 -07:00
Louis Rilling
6f61076406 configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock
This patch introduces configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to protect configfs_dirent
traversals against linkage mutations (add/del/move). This will allow
configfs_detach_prep() to avoid locking i_mutexes.

Locking rules for configfs_dirent linkage mutations are the same plus the
requirement of taking configfs_dirent_lock. For configfs_dirent walking, one can
either take appropriate i_mutex as before, or take configfs_dirent_lock.

The spinlock could actually be a mutex, but the critical sections are either
O(1) or should not be too long (default groups walking in last patch).

ChangeLog:
  - Clarify the comment on configfs_dirent_lock usage
  - Move sd->s_element init before linking the new dirent
  - In lseek(), do not release configfs_dirent_lock before the dirent is
    relinked.

Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2008-07-14 13:57:15 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
8e24eea728 fs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
e4ad08fe64 mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability
Add a new BDI capability flag: BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB.  If this flag is
set, then don't update the per-bdi writeback stats from
test_set_page_writeback() and test_clear_page_writeback().

Misc cleanups:

 - convert bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() and friends to static inline functions
 - create a flag that includes all three dirty/writeback related flags,
   since almst all users will want to have them toghether

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
Jan Blunck
1d957f9bf8 Introduce path_put()
* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
  vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Jan Blunck
4ac9137858 Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}
This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
  <dentry,vfsmount> pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
  struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:

without patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5321639  858418  715768 6895825  6938d1 vmlinux

with patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5320026  858418  715768 6894212  693284 vmlinux

This patch:

Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Joonwoo Park
116ba5d5ea configfs: file.c fix possible recursive locking
configfs_register_subsystem() with default_groups triggers recursive locking.
it seems that mutex_lock_nested is needed.

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.24-rc6 #145
---------------------------------------------
swapper/1 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [<c40c9a9e>] configfs_add_file+0x2e/0x70

but task is already holding lock:
 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [<c40ca985>] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/1:
 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [<c40ca985>] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

stack backtrace:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc6 #145
 [<c40053ba>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
 [<c4005e82>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
 [<c400687e>] dump_stack+0x6e/0x80
 [<c404ec72>] __lock_acquire+0xe62/0x1120
 [<c404efb2>] lock_acquire+0x82/0xa0
 [<c43fda88>] mutex_lock_nested+0x98/0x2e0
 [<c40c9a9e>] configfs_add_file+0x2e/0x70
 [<c40c9b0c>] configfs_create_file+0x2c/0x40
 [<c40ca639>] configfs_attach_item+0x139/0x220
 [<c40ca734>] configfs_attach_group+0x14/0x140
 [<c40ca7e9>] configfs_attach_group+0xc9/0x140
 [<c40ca9f6>] configfs_register_subsystem+0xc6/0x130
 [<c45c8186>] init_netconsole+0x2b6/0x300
 [<c45a75f2>] kernel_init+0x142/0x320
 [<c4004fb3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
 =======================

Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:47 -08:00
Joonwoo Park
ba611edfe4 configfs: dir.c fix possible recursive locking
configfs_register_subsystem() with default_groups triggers recursive locking.
it seems that mutex_lock_nested is needed.

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.24-rc6 #141
---------------------------------------------
swapper/1 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [<c40ca76f>] configfs_attach_group+0x4f/0x190

but task is already holding lock:
 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [<c40ca9d5>] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/1:
 #0:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){--..}, at: [<c40ca9d5>] configfs_register_subsystem+0x55/0x130

stack backtrace:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc6 #141
 [<c40053ba>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
 [<c4005e82>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
 [<c400687e>] dump_stack+0x6e/0x80
 [<c404ec72>] __lock_acquire+0xe62/0x1120
 [<c404efb2>] lock_acquire+0x82/0xa0
 [<c43fdad8>] mutex_lock_nested+0x98/0x2e0
 [<c40ca76f>] configfs_attach_group+0x4f/0x190
 [<c40caa46>] configfs_register_subsystem+0xc6/0x130
 [<c45c8186>] init_netconsole+0x2b6/0x300
 [<c45a75f2>] kernel_init+0x142/0x320
 [<c4004fb3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x14
 =======================

Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwpark81@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2008-01-25 15:05:47 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
197b12d679 Kobject: convert fs/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0ff21e4663 kobject: convert kernel_kset to be a kobject
kernel_kset does not need to be a kset, but a much simpler kobject now
that we have kobj_attributes.

We also rename kernel_kset to kernel_kobj to catch all users of this
symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:24 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
bd35b93d80 kset: convert kernel_subsys to use kset_create
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.  We also
rename kernel_subsys to kernel_kset to catch all users of this symbol
with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:14 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3794491d0c kobject: convert configfs to use kobject_create
We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:11 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3514faca19 kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct kset
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset.  We should set this
explicitly every time for each kset.  This change is needed so that we
can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented
assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has.

This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers.

Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young
<hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Dave Hansen
ce8d2cdf3d r/o bind mounts: filesystem helpers for custom 'struct file's
Why do we need r/o bind mounts?

This feature allows a read-only view into a read-write filesystem.  In the
process of doing that, it also provides infrastructure for keeping track of
the number of writers to any given mount.

This has a number of uses.  It allows chroots to have parts of filesystems
writable.  It will be useful for containers in the future because users may
have root inside a container, but should not be allowed to write to
somefilesystems.  This also replaces patches that vserver has had out of the
tree for several years.

It allows security enhancement by making sure that parts of your filesystem
read-only (such as when you don't trust your FTP server), when you don't want
to have entire new filesystems mounted, or when you want atime selectively
updated.  I've been using the following script to test that the feature is
working as desired.  It takes a directory and makes a regular bind and a r/o
bind mount of it.  It then performs some normal filesystem operations on the
three directories, including ones that are expected to fail, like creating a
file on the r/o mount.

This patch:

Some filesystems forego the vfs and may_open() and create their own 'struct
file's.

This patch creates a couple of helper functions which can be used by these
filesystems, and will provide a unified place which the r/o bind mount code
may patch.

Also, rename an existing, static-scope init_file() to a less generic name.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:04 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
e0bf68ddec mm: bdi init hooks
provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
Nick Piggin
800d15a53e implement simple fs aops
Implement new aops for some of the simpler filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:55 -07:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Joel Becker
631d1febab configfs: config item dependancies.
Sometimes other drivers depend on particular configfs items.  For
example, ocfs2 mounts depend on a heartbeat region item.  If that
region item is removed with rmdir(2), the ocfs2 mount must BUG or go
readonly.  Not happy.

This provides two additional API calls: configfs_depend_item() and
configfs_undepend_item().  A client driver can call
configfs_depend_item() on an existing item to tell configfs that it is
depended on.  configfs will then return -EBUSY from rmdir(2) for that
item.  When the item is no longer depended on, the client driver calls
configfs_undepend_item() on it.

These API cannot be called underneath any configfs callbacks, as
they will conflict.  They can block and allocate.  A client driver
probably shouldn't calling them of its own gumption.  Rather it should
be providing an API that external subsystems call.

How does this work?  Imagine the ocfs2 mount process.  When it mounts,
it asks for a heart region item.  This is done via a call into the
heartbeat code.  Inside the heartbeat code, the region item is looked
up.  Here, the heartbeat code calls configfs_depend_item().  If it
succeeds, then heartbeat knows the region is safe to give to ocfs2.
If it fails, it was being torn down anyway, and heartbeat can gracefully
pass up an error.

[ Fixed some bad whitespace in configfs.txt. --Mark ]

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 17:18:59 -07:00
Joel Becker
299894cc90 configfs: accessing item hierarchy during rmdir(2)
Add a notification callback, ops->disconnect_notify(). It has the same
prototype as ->drop_item(), but it will be called just before the item
linkage is broken. This way, configfs users who want to do work while
the object is still in the heirarchy have a chance.

Client drivers will still need to config_item_put() in their
->drop_item(), if they implement it.  They need do nothing in
->disconnect_notify().  They don't have to provide it if they don't
care.  But someone who wants to be notified before ci_parent is set to
NULL can now be notified.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 17:11:01 -07:00
Johannes Berg
6d748924b7 [PATCH] configsfs buffer: use mutex
Seems copied from sysfs, but I don't see a reason here nor there to use
a semaphore instead of a mutex. Convert.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 17:10:58 -07:00
Joel Becker
e6bd07aee7 configfs: Convert subsystem semaphore to mutex
Convert the su_sem member of struct configfs_subsystem to a struct
mutex, as that's what it is. Also convert all the users and update
Documentation/configfs.txt and Documentation/configfs_example.c
accordingly.

[ Conflict in fs/dlm/config.c with commit
  3168b0780d manually resolved. --Mark ]

Inspired-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 17:10:56 -07:00
Satyam Sharma
3fe6c5ce11 [PATCH] configfs+dlm: Rename config_group_find_obj and state semantics clearly
Configfs being based upon sysfs code, config_group_find_obj() is probably
so named because of the similar kset_find_obj() in sysfs. However,
"kobject"s in sysfs become "config_item"s in configfs, so let's call it
config_group_find_item() instead, for sake of uniformity, and make
corresponding change in the users of this function.

BTW a crucial difference between kset_find_obj and config_group_find_item
is in locking expectations. kset_find_obj does its locking by itself, but
config_group_find_item expects the *caller* to do the locking. The reason
for this: kset's have their own locks, config_group's don't but instead
rely on the subsystem mutex. And, subsystem needn't necessarily be around
when config_group_find_item() is called.

So let's state these locking semantics explicitly, and rectify the comment,
otherwise bugs could continue to occur in future, as they did in the past
(refer commit d82b8191e238 in gfs2-2.6-fixes.git).

[ I also took the opportunity to fix some bad whitespace and
double-empty lines. --Joel ]

[ Conflict in fs/dlm/config.c with commit
  3168b0780d manually resolved. --Mark ]

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 17:02:31 -07:00
Satyam Sharma
4c62b53454 configfs: misc cleanups
1. item.c:config_item_cleanup() is a private function (only called by
config_item_release() in same file). However, it is spuriously
exported in include/linux/configfs.h, so remove that export and make
it static in item.c. Also, it is no longer exported / interface
function, so no need to give comment for this function (the comment
was stating obvious thing, anyway).

2. Kernel-doc comment format does not allow empty line between end of
comment and start of function (declaration line). There were several
such spurious empty lines in item.c, so fix them.

  fs/configfs/item.c       |   15 +++------------
  include/linux/configfs.h |    1 -
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 16:52:25 -07:00
Joel Becker
b23cdde4c6 configfs: consistent attribute size
The attribute store/show code currently limits attributes at PAGE_SIZE.
This code comes from sysfs, where it still works that way.

However, PAGE_SIZE is not constant.  A 16k attribute string works on
ia64 but not on x86.  Really a subsystem shouldn't allow different
attribute sizes based on platform.

As such, limit all simple attributes to 4k.  This works on all
platforms, and is consistent with all current code.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 16:52:22 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
e8edc6e03a Detach sched.h from mm.h
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
92f4c701aa use simple_read_from_buffer() in fs/
Cleanup using simple_read_from_buffer() in binfmt_misc, configfs, and sysfs.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
823bccfc40 remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and
ktypes.  The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this,
especially as it is not really needed at all.

Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
Joel Becker
afdf04ea09 configfs: add missing mutex_unlock()
d_alloc() failure in configfs_register_subsystem() would fail to unlock
the mutex taken above.  Reorganize the exit path to ensure the unlock
happens.

Reported-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-03-14 14:37:21 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
ee9b6d61a2 [PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const
This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:47 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
754661f143 [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1
Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
c376222960 [PATCH] Transform kmem_cache_alloc()+memset(0) -> kmem_cache_zalloc().
Replace appropriate pairs of "kmem_cache_alloc()" + "memset(0)" with the
corresponding "kmem_cache_zalloc()" call.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:27 -08:00
Joel Becker
ff05d1c464 configfs: Zero terminate data in configfs attribute writes.
Attributes in configfs are text files.  As such, most handlers expect to be
able to call functions like simple_strtoul() without checking the bounds
of the buffer.  Change the call to zero terminate the buffer before calling
the client's ->store() method.  This does reduce the attribute size from
PAGE_SIZE to PAGE_SIZE-1.

Also, change get_zeroed_page() to alloc_page(), as we are handling the
termination.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-02-07 12:17:08 -08:00
Josef "Jeff" Sipek
867fa491a2 [PATCH] configfs: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the
configfs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:43 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
58d206c2fa configfs: make configfs_dirent_exists() static
This patch makes the needlessly global configfs_dirent_exists() static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 18:29:12 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
55ed16029d configfs: mutex_lock_nested() fix
configfs_unregister_subsystem() nests a pair of inode i_mutex acquisitions,
and thus needs annotation via mutex_lock_nested().

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 18:28:34 -08:00