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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/ChangeLog')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ntfs/ChangeLog | 36 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog index 02f4409..9d8ffa8 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog +++ b/fs/ntfs/ChangeLog @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ ToDo/Notes: - Find and fix bugs. - The only places in the kernel where a file is resized are - ntfs_file_write*() and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_sem is + ntfs_file_write*() and ntfs_truncate() for both of which i_mutex is held. Just have to be careful in read-/writepage and other helpers - not running under i_sem that we play nice... Also need to be careful + not running under i_mutex that we play nice. Also need to be careful with initialized_size extension in ntfs_file_write*() and writepage. UPDATE: The only things that need to be checked are the compressed write and the other attribute resize/write cases like index @@ -19,6 +19,24 @@ ToDo/Notes: - Enable the code for setting the NT4 compatibility flag when we start making NTFS 1.2 specific modifications. +2.1.26 - Minor bug fixes and updates. + + - Fix a potential overflow in file.c where a cast to s64 was missing in + a left shift of a page index. + - The struct inode has had its i_sem semaphore changed to a mutex named + i_mutex. + - We have struct kmem_cache now so use it instead of the typedef + kmem_cache_t. (Pekka Enberg) + - Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximum + supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes). + - Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write by + special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag. + - Miscellaneous updates to layout.h. + - Cope with attribute list attribute having invalid flags. Windows + copes with this and even chkdsk does not detect or fix this so we + have to cope with it, too. Thanks to Pawel Kot for reporting the + problem. + 2.1.25 - (Almost) fully implement write(2) and truncate(2). - Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock(), ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() and @@ -373,7 +391,7 @@ ToDo/Notes: single one of them had an mst error. (Thanks to Ken MacFerrin for the bug report.) - Fix error handling in fs/ntfs/quota.c::ntfs_mark_quotas_out_of_date() - where we failed to release i_sem on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode. + where we failed to release i_mutex on the $Quota/$Q attribute inode. - Fix bug in handling of bad inodes in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup(). - Add mapping of unmapped buffers to all remaining code paths, i.e. fs/ntfs/aops.c::ntfs_write_mst_block(), mft.c::ntfs_sync_mft_mirror(), @@ -874,7 +892,7 @@ ToDo/Notes: clusters. (Philipp Thomas) - attrib.c::load_attribute_list(): Fix bug when initialized_size is a multiple of the block_size but not the cluster size. (Szabolcs - Szakacsits <szaka@sienet.hu>) + Szakacsits) 2.1.2 - Important bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs. @@ -884,7 +902,7 @@ ToDo/Notes: - Add handling for initialized_size != data_size in compressed files. - Reduce function local stack usage from 0x3d4 bytes to just noise in - fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>) + fs/ntfs/upcase.c. (Randy Dunlap) - Remove compiler warnings for newer gcc. - Pages are no longer kmapped by mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write() around calls to ->{prepare,commit}_write. Adapt NTFS appropriately @@ -1201,11 +1219,11 @@ ToDo/Notes: the kernel. We probably want a kernel generic init_address_space() function... - Drop BKL from ntfs_readdir() after consultation with Al Viro. The - only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_sem during - the call, and i_sem is sufficient protection against changes in the - directory inode (including ->i_size). + only caller of ->readdir() is vfs_readdir() which holds i_mutex + during the call, and i_mutex is sufficient protection against changes + in the directory inode (including ->i_size). - Use generic_file_llseek() for directories (as opposed to - default_llseek()) as this downs i_sem instead of the BKL which is + default_llseek()) as this downs i_mutex instead of the BKL which is what we now need for exclusion against ->f_pos changes considering we no longer take the BKL in ntfs_readdir(). |
