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* vfs: live vfsmounts never have NULL ->mnt_sbAl Viro2012-01-031-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* vfs: for usbfs, etc. internal vfsmounts ->mnt_sb->s_root == ->mnt_rootAl Viro2012-01-031-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* configfs: register_filesystem() called too earlyAl Viro2011-12-132-20/+18
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* doc: fix broken referencesPaul Bolle2011-09-272-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd. Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text they were part of. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* configfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir renameSage Weil2011-05-281-2/+0
| | | | | | | | configfs does not have problems with references to unlinked directories. CC: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-05-261-0/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * vfs: push dentry_unhash on rmdir into file systemsSage Weil2011-05-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | configfs: Fix race between configfs_readdir() and configfs_d_iput()Joel Becker2011-05-181-5/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | configfs_readdir() will use the existing inode numbers of inodes in the dcache, but it makes them up for attribute files that aren't currently instantiated. There is a race where a closing attribute file can be tearing down at the same time as configfs_readdir() is trying to get its inode number. We want to get the inode number of open attribute files, because they should match while instantiated. We can't lock down the transition where dentry->d_inode is set to NULL, so we just check for NULL there. We can, however, ensure that an inode we find isn't iput() in configfs_d_iput() until after we've accessed it. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
* | configfs: Don't try to d_delete() negative dentries.Joel Becker2011-05-181-2/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | When configfs is faking mkdir() on its subsystem or default group objects, it starts by adding a negative dentry. It then tries to instantiate the group. If that should fail, it must clean up after itself. I was using d_delete() here, but configfs_attach_group() promises to return an empty dentry on error. d_delete() explodes with the entry dentry. Let's try d_drop() instead. The unhashing is what we want for our dentry. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
* Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi2011-03-311-1/+1
| | | | | | Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
* configfs: change depends -> select SYSFSNicholas Bellinger2011-01-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | This patch changes configfs to select SYSFS to fix the following: warning: (TARGET_CORE && GFS2_FS) selects CONFIGFS_FS which has unmet direct dependencies (SYSFS) Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
* switch configfsAl Viro2011-01-123-5/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup pathNick Piggin2011-01-071-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* fs: dcache rationalise dget variantsNick Piggin2011-01-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point). However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: dcache remove dcache_lockNick Piggin2011-01-072-7/+1
| | | | | | dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: dcache scale d_unhashedNick Piggin2011-01-071-0/+2
| | | | | | | Protect d_unhashed(dentry) condition with d_lock. This means keeping DCACHE_UNHASHED bit in synch with hash manipulations. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: dcache scale dentry refcountNick Piggin2011-01-072-3/+2
| | | | | | | | Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a 0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* fs: change d_delete semanticsNick Piggin2011-01-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent, and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback anyway. This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning much simpler. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* config fs: avoid switching ->d_op on live dentryNick Piggin2011-01-071-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | Switching d_op on a live dentry is racy in general, so avoid it. In this case it is a negative dentry, which is safer, but there are still concurrent ops which may be called on d_op in that case (eg. d_revalidate). So in general a filesystem may not do this. Fix configfs so as not to do this. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
* convert get_sb_single() usersAl Viro2010-10-291-4/+4
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inodeChristoph Hellwig2010-10-251-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it. For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed, but that's left for later patches. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fix setattr error handling in sysfs, configfsNick Piggin2010-06-041-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | sysfs and configfs setattr functions have error cases after the generic inode's attributes have been changed. Fix consistency by changing the generic inode attributes only when it is guaranteed to succeed. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* fs: convert simple fs to new truncateNick Piggin2010-05-271-7/+2
| | | | | | | | | Convert simple filesystems: ramfs, configfs, sysfs, block_dev to new truncate sequence. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Fix the regression created by "set S_DEAD on unlink()..." commitAl Viro2010-05-151-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1) i_flags simply doesn't work for mount/unlink race prevention; we may have many links to file and rm on one of those obviously shouldn't prevent bind on top of another later on. To fix it right way we need to mark _dentry_ as unsuitable for mounting upon; new flag (DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT) is protected by d_flags and i_mutex on the inode in question. Set it (with dont_mount(dentry)) in unlink/rmdir/etc., check (with cant_mount(dentry)) in places in namespace.c that used to check for S_DEAD. Setting S_DEAD is still needed in places where we used to set it (for directories getting killed), since we rely on it for readdir/rmdir race prevention. 2) rename()/mount() protection has another bogosity - we unhash the target before we'd checked that it's not a mountpoint. Fixed. 3) ancient bogosity in pivot_root() - we locked i_mutex on the right directory, but checked S_DEAD on the different (and wrong) one. Noticed and fixed. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-303-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* Fix configfs leakAl Viro2010-01-141-1/+3
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* writeback: add name to backing_dev_infoJens Axboe2009-09-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can fix that up. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* configfs: Rework configfs_depend_item() locking and make lockdep happyLouis Rilling2009-04-301-59/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | configfs_depend_item() recursively locks all inodes mutex from configfs root to the target item, which makes lockdep unhappy. The purpose of this recursive locking is to ensure that the item tree can be safely parsed and that the target item, if found, is not about to leave. This patch reworks configfs_depend_item() locking using configfs_dirent_lock. Since configfs_dirent_lock protects all changes to the configfs_dirent tree, and protects tagging of items to be removed, this lock can be used instead of the inodes mutex lock chain. This needs that the check for dependents be done atomically with CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING tagging. Now lockdep looks happy with configfs. [ Lifted the setting of s_type into configfs_new_dirent() to satisfy the atomic setting of CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING -- Joel ] Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir() and rmdir()Louis Rilling2009-04-303-0/+131
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When attaching default groups (subdirs) of a new group (in mkdir() or in configfs_register()), configfs recursively takes inode's mutexes along the path from the parent of the new group to the default subdirs. This is needed to ensure that the VFS will not race with operations on these sub-dirs. This is safe for the following reasons: - the VFS allows one to lock first an inode and second one of its children (The lock subclasses for this pattern are respectively I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD); - from this rule any inode path can be recursively locked in descending order as long as it stays under a single mountpoint and does not follow symlinks. Unfortunately lockdep does not know (yet?) how to handle such recursion. I've tried to use Peter Zijlstra's lock_set_subclass() helper to upgrade i_mutexes from I_MUTEX_CHILD to I_MUTEX_PARENT when we know that we might recursively lock some of their descendant, but this usage does not seem to fit the purpose of lock_set_subclass() because it leads to several i_mutex locked with subclass I_MUTEX_PARENT by the same task. >From inside configfs it is not possible to serialize those recursive locking with a top-level one, because mkdir() and rmdir() are already called with inodes locked by the VFS. So using some mutex_lock_nest_lock() is not an option. I am proposing two solutions: 1) one that wraps recursive mutex_lock()s with lockdep_off()/lockdep_on(). 2) (as suggested earlier by Peter Zijlstra) one that puts the i_mutexes recursively locked in different classes based on their depth from the top-level config_group created. This induces an arbitrary limit (MAX_LOCK_DEPTH - 2 == 46) on the nesting of configfs default groups whenever lockdep is activated but this limit looks reasonably high. Unfortunately, this also isolates VFS operations on configfs default groups from the others and thus lowers the chances to detect locking issues. Nobody likes solution 1), which I can understand. This patch implements solution 2). However lockdep is still not happy with configfs_depend_item(). Next patch reworks the locking of configfs_depend_item() and finally makes lockdep happy. [ Note: This hides a few locking interactions with the VFS from lockdep. That was my big concern, because we like lockdep's protection. However, the current state always dumps a spurious warning. The locking is correct, so I tell people to ignore the warning and that we'll keep our eyes on the locking to make sure it stays correct. With this patch, we eliminate the warning. We do lose some of the lockdep protections, but this only means that we still have to keep our eyes on the locking. We're going to do that anyway. -- Joel ] Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* configfs: Fix Trivial Warning in fs/configfs/symlink.cSubrata Modak2009-04-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I observed the following build warning with fs/configfs/symlink.c: fs/configfs/symlink.c: In function 'configfs_symlink': fs/configfs/symlink.c:138: warning: 'target_item' may be used uninitialized in this function Here is a small fix for this. Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sachin P Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* constify dentry_operations: configfsAl Viro2009-03-271-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* Revert "configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and ↵Mark Fasheh2009-02-041-59/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | configfs_depend_item()" This reverts commit 0e0333429a6280e6eb3c98845e4eed90d5f8078a. I committed this by accident - Joel and Louis are working with the lockdep maintainer to provide a better solution than just turning lockdep off. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Acked-by: <Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()Joel Becker2009-02-021-0/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When attaching default groups (subdirs) of a new group (in mkdir() or in configfs_register()), configfs recursively takes inode's mutexes along the path from the parent of the new group to the default subdirs. This is needed to ensure that the VFS will not race with operations on these sub-dirs. This is safe for the following reasons: - the VFS allows one to lock first an inode and second one of its children (The lock subclasses for this pattern are respectively I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD); - from this rule any inode path can be recursively locked in descending order as long as it stays under a single mountpoint and does not follow symlinks. Unfortunately lockdep does not know (yet?) how to handle such recursion. I've tried to use Peter Zijlstra's lock_set_subclass() helper to upgrade i_mutexes from I_MUTEX_CHILD to I_MUTEX_PARENT when we know that we might recursively lock some of their descendant, but this usage does not seem to fit the purpose of lock_set_subclass() because it leads to several i_mutex locked with subclass I_MUTEX_PARENT by the same task. >From inside configfs it is not possible to serialize those recursive locking with a top-level one, because mkdir() and rmdir() are already called with inodes locked by the VFS. So using some mutex_lock_nest_lock() is not an option. I am proposing two solutions: 1) one that wraps recursive mutex_lock()s with lockdep_off()/lockdep_on(). 2) (as suggested earlier by Peter Zijlstra) one that puts the i_mutexes recursively locked in different classes based on their depth from the top-level config_group created. This induces an arbitrary limit (MAX_LOCK_DEPTH - 2 == 46) on the nesting of configfs default groups whenever lockdep is activated but this limit looks reasonably high. Unfortunately, this alos isolates VFS operations on configfs default groups from the others and thus lowers the chances to detect locking issues. This patch implements solution 1). Solution 2) looks better from lockdep's point of view, but fails with configfs_depend_item(). This needs to rework the locking scheme of configfs_depend_item() by removing the variable lock recursion depth, and I think that it's doable thanks to the configfs_dirent_lock. For now, let's stick to solution 1). Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* fs/Kconfig: move configfs outAlexey Dobriyan2009-01-221-0/+11
| | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocationAl Viro2009-01-051-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | ... and don't bother in callers. Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks, while we are at it - it's already been zeroed. i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] assorted path_lookup() -> kern_path() conversionsAl Viro2008-10-231-8/+8
| | | | | | more nameidata eviction Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] configfs: Consolidate locking around configfs_detach_prep() in ↵Louis Rilling2008-08-221-10/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | configfs_rmdir() It appears that configfs_rmdir() can protect configfs_detach_prep() retries with less calls to {spin,mutex}_{lock,unlock}, and a cleaner code. This patch does not change any behavior, except that it removes two useless lock/unlock pairs having nothing inside to protect and providing a useless barrier. 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: Pin configfs subsystems separately from new config_items.Joel Becker2008-07-311-9/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: Fix open directory making rmdir() failLouis Rilling2008-07-311-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: Lock new directory inodes before removing on cleanup after ↵Louis Rilling2008-07-311-19/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: Prevent userspace from creating new entries under ↵Louis Rilling2008-07-313-5/+103
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: Fix failing symlink() making rmdir() failLouis Rilling2008-07-313-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: Fix symlink() to a removing itemLouis Rilling2008-07-312-7/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] configfs: Include linux/err.h in linux/configfs.hJoel Becker2008-07-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | 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>
* configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.Joel Becker2008-07-171-10/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed ↵Joel Becker2008-07-171-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | errors." This reverts commit 11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a. The code will move to PTR_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* configfs: call drop_link() to cleanup after create_link() failureLouis Rilling2008-07-141-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.Joel Becker2008-07-141-7/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() failLouis Rilling2008-07-142-10/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* configfs: Fix deadlock with racing rmdir() and rename()Louis Rilling2008-07-141-20/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
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