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Sage Weil
526e7ce552 fuse: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
Fuse has no problems with references to unlinked directories.

CC: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
CC: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-28 01:02:53 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
32e51f141f Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (25 commits)
  cifs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ocfs2: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  exofs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  nfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext2: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext3: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  ext4: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir/rename_dir
  btrfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash in rmdir/rename_dir
  ceph: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash calls
  vfs: clean up vfs_rename_other
  vfs: clean up vfs_rename_dir
  vfs: clean up vfs_rmdir
  vfs: fix vfs_rename_dir for FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE filesystems
  libfs: drop unneeded dentry_unhash
  vfs: update dentry_unhash() comment
  vfs: push dentry_unhash on rename_dir into file systems
  vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systems
  vfs: remove dget() from dentry_unhash()
  vfs: dentry_unhash immediately prior to rmdir
  vfs: Block mmapped writes while the fs is frozen
  ...
2011-05-26 09:52:14 -07:00
Sage Weil
e4eaac06bc vfs: push dentry_unhash on rename_dir into file systems
Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
rename method (except gfs2 and xfs) so that it can be dealt with on a
per-fs basis.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:48 -04:00
Sage Weil
79bf7c732b vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systems
Only a few file systems need this.  Start by pushing it down into each
fs rmdir method (except gfs2 and xfs) so it can be dealt with on a per-fs
basis.

This does not change behavior for any in-tree file systems.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-26 07:26:47 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
d24339059d fuse: fix oops in revalidate when called with NULL nameidata
Some cases (e.g. ecryptfs) can call ->dentry_revalidate with NULL
nameidata.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34732

Tyler Hicks pointed out that this bug was introduced by commit
e7c0a16786 "fuse: make fuse_dentry_revalidate() RCU aware"

Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-05-10 17:35:58 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
e7c0a16786 fuse: make fuse_dentry_revalidate() RCU aware
Only bail out of fuse_dentry_revalidate() on LOOKUP_RCU when blocking
is actually necessary.

CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-03-21 13:58:06 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
19690ddb65 fuse: make fuse_permission() RCU aware
Only bail out of fuse_permission() on IPERM_FLAG_RCU when blocking is
actually necessary.

CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-03-21 13:58:06 +01:00
Al Viro
529c5f958f fuse: fix d_revalidate oopsen on NFS exports
can't blindly check nd->flags in ->d_revalidate()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-10 03:44:31 -05:00
Miklos Szeredi
8d56addd70 fuse: fix truncate after open
Commit e1181ee6 "vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC
opens" broke the behavior of open(O_TRUNC|O_RDONLY) in fuse.  Fuse
assumed that when called from open, a truncate() will be done, not an
ftruncate().

Fix by restoring the old behavior, based on the ATTR_OPEN flag.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-02-25 14:44:58 +01:00
Al Viro
c35eebe993 switch fuse
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:02:44 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
7d44b04401 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: fix ioctl ABI
  fuse: allow batching of FORGET requests
  fuse: separate queue for FORGET requests
  fuse: ioctl cleanup

Fix up trivial conflict in fs/fuse/inode.c due to RCU lookup having done
the RCU-freeing of the inode in fuse_destroy_inode().
2011-01-10 07:43:54 -08:00
Nick Piggin
b74c79e993 fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
34286d6662 fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
-ECHILD from all implementations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Miklos Szeredi
07e77dca8a fuse: separate queue for FORGET requests
Terje Malmedal reports that a fuse filesystem with 32 million inodes
on a machine with lots of memory can go unresponsive for up to 30
minutes when all those inodes are evicted from the icache.

The reason is that FORGET messages, sent when the inode is evicted,
are queued up together with regular filesystem requests, and while the
huge queue of FORGET messages are processed no other filesystem
operation can proceed.

Since a full fuse request structure is allocated for each inode, these
take up quite a bit of memory as well.

To solve these issues, create a slim 'fuse_forget_link' structure
containing just the minimum of information required to send the FORGET
request and chain these on a separate queue.

When userspace is asking for a request make sure that FORGET and
non-FORGET requests are selected fairly: for each 8 non-FORGET allow
16 FORGET requests.  This will make sure FORGETs do not pile up, yet
other requests are also allowed to proceed while the queued FORGETs
are processed.

Reported-by: Terje Malmedal <terje.malmedal@usit.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2010-12-07 20:16:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
5f248c9c25 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits)
  no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list
  Fix sget() race with failing mount
  vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount
  sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount
  btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change
  BFS: clean up the superblock usage
  AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed
  AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage
  cifs: truncate fallout
  mbcache: fix shrinker function return value
  mbcache: Remove unused features
  add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
  pass a struct path to vfs_statfs
  update VFS documentation for method changes.
  All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly
  convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()
  Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped
  fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone
  fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-10 11:26:52 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
2c27c65ed0 check ATTR_SIZE contraints in inode_change_ok
Make sure we check the truncate constraints early on in ->setattr by adding
those checks to inode_change_ok.  Also clean up and document inode_change_ok
to make this obvious.

As a fallout we don't have to call inode_newsize_ok from simple_setsize and
simplify it down to a truncate_setsize which doesn't return an error.  This
simplifies a lot of setattr implementations and means we use truncate_setsize
almost everywhere.  Get rid of fat_setsize now that it's trivial and mark
ext2_setsize static to make the calling convention obvious.

Keep the inode_newsize_ok in vmtruncate for now as all callers need an
audit for its removal anyway.

Note: setattr code in ecryptfs doesn't call inode_change_ok at all and
needs a deeper audit, but that is left for later.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:39 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
db78b877f7 always call inode_change_ok early in ->setattr
Make sure we call inode_change_ok before doing any changes in ->setattr,
and make sure to call it even if our fs wants to ignore normal UNIX
permissions, but use the ATTR_FORCE to skip those.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09 16:47:38 -04:00
Eric Paris
9cfcac810e vfs: re-introduce MAY_CHDIR
Currently MAY_ACCESS means that filesystems must check the permissions
right then and not rely on cached results or the results of future
operations on the object.  This can be because of a call to sys_access() or
because of a call to chdir() which needs to check search without relying on
any future operations inside that dir.  I plan to use MAY_ACCESS for other
purposes in the security system, so I split the MAY_ACCESS and the
MAY_CHDIR cases.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:35:06 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
7ea8085910 drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:05:02 -04:00
Csaba Henk
1b7323965a fuse: reject O_DIRECT flag also in fuse_create
The comment in fuse_open about O_DIRECT:

  "VFS checks this, but only _after_ ->open()"

also holds for fuse_create, however, the same kind of check was missing there.

As an impact of this bug, open(newfile, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_DIRECT) fails, but a
stub newfile will remain if the fuse server handled the implied FUSE_CREATE
request appropriately.

Other impact: in the above situation ima_file_free() will complain to open/free
imbalance if CONFIG_IMA is set.

Signed-off-by: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Harshavardhana <harsha@gluster.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-11-27 16:37:13 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
5219f346b0 fuse: invalidate target of rename
Invalidate the target's attributes, which may have changed (such as
nlink, change time) so that they are refreshed on the next getattr().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-11-04 10:24:52 +01:00
npiggin@suse.de
c08d3b0e33 truncate: use new helpers
Update some fs code to make use of new helper functions introduced
in the previous patch. Should be no significant change in behaviour
(except CIFS now calls send_sig under i_lock, via inode_newsize_ok).

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Cc: sfrench@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24 08:41:47 -04:00
John Muir
3b463ae0c6 fuse: invalidation reverse calls
Add notification messages that allow the filesystem to invalidate VFS
caches.

Two notifications are added:

 1) inode invalidation

   - invalidate cached attributes
   - invalidate a range of pages in the page cache (this is optional)

 2) dentry invalidation

   - try to invalidate a subtree in the dentry cache

Care must be taken while accessing the 'struct super_block' for the
mount, as it can go away while an invalidation is in progress.  To
prevent this, introduce a rw-semaphore, that is taken for read during
the invalidation and taken for write in the ->kill_sb callback.

Cc: Csaba Henk <csaba@gluster.com>
Cc: Anand Avati <avati@zresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-06-30 20:12:24 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
e0a43ddcc0 fuse: allow umask processing in userspace
This patch lets filesystems handle masking the file mode on creation.
This is needed if filesystem is using ACLs.

 - The CREATE, MKDIR and MKNOD requests are extended with a "umask"
   parameter.

 - A new FUSE_DONT_MASK flag is added to the INIT request/reply.  With
   this the filesystem may request that the create mode is not masked.

CC: Jean-Pierre André <jean-pierre.andre@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-06-30 20:12:23 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
8b0797a498 fuse: don't use inode in fuse_sync_release()
Make fuse_sync_release() a generic helper function that doesn't need a
struct inode pointer.  This makes it suitable for use by CUSE.

Change return value of fuse_release_common() from int to void.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:39 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
91fe96b403 fuse: create fuse_do_open() helper for CUSE
Create a helper for sending an OPEN request that doesn't need a struct
inode pointer.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:37 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
c7b7143c63 fuse: clean up args in fuse_finish_open() and fuse_release_fill()
Move setting ff->fh, ff->nodeid and file->private_data outside
fuse_finish_open().  Add ->open_flags member to struct fuse_file.

This simplifies the argument passing to fuse_finish_open() and
fuse_release_fill(), and paves the way for creating an open helper
that doesn't need an inode pointer.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:37 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
2106cb1893 fuse: don't use inode in helpers called by fuse_direct_io()
Use ff->fc and ff->nodeid instead of passing down the inode.

This prepares this function for use by CUSE, where the inode is not
owned by a fuse filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-28 16:56:37 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
f4975c67dd fuse: allow kernel to access "direct_io" files
Allow the kernel read and write on "direct_io" files.  This is
necessary for nfs export and execute support.

The implementation is simple: if an access from the kernel is
detected, don't perform get_user_pages(), just use the kernel address
provided by the requester to copy from/to the userspace filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2009-04-02 14:25:34 +02:00
Al Viro
4269590a72 constify dentry_operations: FUSE
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5fec8bdbf9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: clean up annotations of fc->lock
  fuse: fix sparse warning in ioctl
  fuse: update interface version
  fuse: add fuse_conn->release()
  fuse: separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn()
  fuse: add fuse_ prefix to several functions
  fuse: implement poll support
  fuse: implement unsolicited notification
  fuse: add file kernel handle
  fuse: implement ioctl support
  fuse: don't let fuse_req->end() put the base reference
  fuse: move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h
  fuse: style fixes
2009-01-06 17:01:20 -08:00
Tejun Heo
b93f858ab2 fuse: add fuse_ prefix to several functions
Add fuse_ prefix to request_send*() and get_root_inode() as some of
those functions will be exported for CUSE.  With or without CUSE
export, having the function names scoped is a good idea for
debuggability.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
acf99433d9 fuse: add file kernel handle
The file handle, fuse_file->fh, is opaque value supplied by userland
FUSE server and uniqueness is not guaranteed.  Add file kernel handle,
fuse_file->kh, which is allocated by the kernel on file allocation and
guaranteed to be unique.

This will be used by poll to match notification to the respective file
but can be used for other purposes where unique file handle is
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Miklos Szeredi
1729a16c2c fuse: style fixes
Fix coding style errors reported by checkpatch and others.  Uptdate
copyright date to 2008.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:54 +01:00
David Howells
c69e8d9c01 CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
David Howells
b6dff3ec5e CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:16 +11:00
Al Viro
a110343f0d [PATCH] fix MAY_CHDIR/MAY_ACCESS/LOOKUP_ACCESS mess
* MAY_CHDIR is redundant - it's an equivalent of MAY_ACCESS
* MAY_ACCESS on fuse should affect only the last step of pathname resolution
* fchdir() and chroot() should pass MAY_ACCESS, for the same reason why
  chdir() needs that.
* now that we pass MAY_ACCESS explicitly in all cases, LOOKUP_ACCESS can be
  removed; it has no business being in nameidata.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:21 -04:00
Al Viro
e6305c43ed [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype
* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares
  about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
* kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
* sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
* fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new
  MAY_... found in mask.

The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
c180eebe13 fuse: add fuse_lookup_name() helper
Add a new helper function which sends a LOOKUP request with the supplied
name.  This will be used by the next patch to send special LOOKUP requests
with "." and ".." as the name.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
dbd561d236 fuse: add export operations
Implement export_operations, to allow fuse filesystems to be exported to
NFS.  This feature has been in the out-of-tree fuse module, and is widely
used and tested.

It has not been originally merged into mainline, because doing the NFS
export in userspace was thought to be a cleaner and more efficient way of
doing it, than through the kernel.

While that is true, it would also have involved a lot of duplicated effort
at reimplementing NFS exporting (all the different versions of the
protocol).  This effort was unfortunately not undertaken by anyone, so we
are left with doing it the easy but less efficient way.

If this feature goes in, the out-of-tree fuse module can go away,
which would have several advantages:

  - not having to maintain two versions
  - less confusion for users
  - no bugs due to kernel API changes

Comment from hch:
 - Use the same fh_type values as XFS, since we use the same fh encoding.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
0de6256daa fuse: prepare lookup for nfs export
Use d_splice_alias() instead of d_add() in fuse lookup code, to allow NFS
exporting.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
5c5c5e51b2 fuse: update file size on short read
If the READ request returned a short count, then either

  - cached size is incorrect
  - filesystem is buggy, as short reads are only allowed on EOF

So assume that the size is wrong and refresh it, so that cached read() doesn't
zero fill the missing chunk.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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
Miklos Szeredi
3be5a52b30 fuse: support writable mmap
Quoting Linus (3 years ago, FUSE inclusion discussions):

  "User-space filesystems are hard to get right. I'd claim that they
   are almost impossible, unless you limit them somehow (shared
   writable mappings are the nastiest part - if you don't have those,
   you can reasonably limit your problems by limiting the number of
   dirty pages you accept through normal "write()" calls)."

Instead of attempting the impossible, I've just waited for the dirty page
accounting infrastructure to materialize (thanks to Peter Zijlstra and
others).  This nicely solved the biggest problem: limiting the number of pages
used for write caching.

Some small details remained, however, which this largish patch attempts to
address.  It provides a page writeback implementation for fuse, which is
completely safe against VM related deadlocks.  Performance may not be very
good for certain usage patterns, but generally it should be acceptable.

It has been tested extensively with fsx-linux and bash-shared-mapping.

Fuse page writeback design
--------------------------

fuse_writepage() allocates a new temporary page with GFP_NOFS|__GFP_HIGHMEM.
It copies the contents of the original page, and queues a WRITE request to the
userspace filesystem using this temp page.

The writeback is finished instantly from the MM's point of view: the page is
removed from the radix trees, and the PageDirty and PageWriteback flags are
cleared.

For the duration of the actual write, the NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter is
incremented.  The per-bdi writeback count is not decremented until the actual
write completes.

On dirtying the page, fuse waits for a previous write to finish before
proceeding.  This makes sure, there can only be one temporary page used at a
time for one cached page.

This approach is wasteful in both memory and CPU bandwidth, so why is this
complication needed?

The basic problem is that there can be no guarantee about the time in which
the userspace filesystem will complete a write.  It may be buggy or even
malicious, and fail to complete WRITE requests.  We don't want unrelated parts
of the system to grind to a halt in such cases.

Also a filesystem may need additional resources (particularly memory) to
complete a WRITE request.  There's a great danger of a deadlock if that
allocation may wait for the writepage to finish.

Currently there are several cases where the kernel can block on page
writeback:

  - allocation order is larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
  - page migration
  - throttle_vm_writeout (through NR_WRITEBACK)
  - sync(2)

Of course in some cases (fsync, msync) we explicitly want to allow blocking.
So for these cases new code has to be added to fuse, since the VM is not
tracking writeback pages for us any more.

As an extra safetly measure, the maximum dirty ratio allocated to a single
fuse filesystem is set to 1% by default.  This way one (or several) buggy or
malicious fuse filesystems cannot slow down the rest of the system by hogging
dirty memory.

With appropriate privileges, this limit can be raised through
'/sys/class/bdi/<bdi>/max_ratio'.

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
Miklos Szeredi
1a823ac9ff fuse: fix permission checking
I added a nasty local variable shadowing bug to fuse in 2.6.24, with the
result, that the 'default_permissions' mount option is basically ignored.

How did this happen?

 - old err declaration in inner scope
 - new err getting declared in outer scope
 - 'return err' from inner scope getting removed
 - old declaration not being noticed

-Wshadow would have saved us, but it doesn't seem practical for
the kernel :(

More testing would have also saved us :((

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-23 17:12:13 -08:00
David Howells
e231c2ee64 Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p)
Convert instances of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) to ERR_CAST(p) using:

perl -spi -e 's/ERR_PTR[(]PTR_ERR[(](.*)[)][)]/ERR_CAST(\1)/' `grep -rl 'ERR_PTR[(]*PTR_ERR' fs crypto net security`

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:26 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
0952b2a4a8 fuse: fix attribute caching after create
Invalidate attributes on create, since st_ctime is updated.  Reported by
Szabolcs Szakacsits.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:13 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
08b633070a fuse: fix attribute caching after rename
Invalidate attributes on rename, since some filesystems may update
st_ctime.  Reported by Szabolcs Szakacsits

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
a6643094e7 fuse: pass open flags to read and write
Some open flags (O_APPEND, O_DIRECT) can be changed with fcntl(F_SETFL, ...)
after open, but fuse currently only sends the flags to userspace in open.

To make it possible to correcly handle changing flags, send the
current value to userspace in each read and write.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
7dca9fd39f fuse: cleanup: add fuse_get_attr_version()
Extract repeated code into helper function, as suggested by Akpm.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00