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Eric W. Biederman
7f78e03513 fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d895cb1af1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
Al Viro
496ad9aa8e new helper: file_inode(file)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Wei Yongjun
49deb4bc22 configfs: move the dereference below the NULL test
The dereference should be moved below the NULL test.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
Andrew Morton
965c8e59cf lseek: the "whence" argument is called "whence"
But the kernel decided to call it "origin" instead.  Fix most of the
sites.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:12 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
69552c0c50 userns: Convert configfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-09-18 01:01:37 -07:00
Al Viro
00cd8dd3bf stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()
Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:34:32 +04:00
Al Viro
2a152ad3a5 make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
... and make configfs_mnt static

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:48 -04:00
Al Viro
0dd6c08a00 configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
no need to play sick games with parent item, internal mount, etc.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:47 -04:00
Al Viro
16d13b59b5 configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:47 -04:00
Al Viro
b7c177fcd2 configfs: kill configfs_sb
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:47 -04:00
Al Viro
81d44ed159 configfs: don't bother with checks for mkdir/rmdir/unlink/symlink in root
just give root directory separate inode_operations without all those
methods...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:46 -04:00
Al Viro
48fde701af switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-20 21:29:35 -04:00
Al Viro
439475140b configfs: convert to umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:57 -05:00
Al Viro
18bb1db3e7 switch vfs_mkdir() and ->mkdir() to umode_t
vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:53 -05:00
Al Viro
c972b4bc83 vfs: live vfsmounts never have NULL ->mnt_sb
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:42 -05:00
Al Viro
4c1d5a64f1 vfs: for usbfs, etc. internal vfsmounts ->mnt_sb->s_root == ->mnt_root
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:52:41 -05:00
Al Viro
7c6455e368 configfs: register_filesystem() called too early
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-12-13 12:35:15 -05:00
Paul Bolle
395cf9691d doc: fix broken references
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>
2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
Sage Weil
98702467f8 configfs: remove unnecessary dentry_unhash on rmdir, dir rename
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>
2011-05-28 01:02:54 -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
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
Joel Becker
24307aa1e7 configfs: Fix race between configfs_readdir() and configfs_d_iput()
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>
2011-05-18 04:08:16 -07:00
Joel Becker
df7f99670a configfs: Don't try to d_delete() negative dentries.
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>
2011-05-18 03:30:58 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Nicholas Bellinger
e205117285 configfs: change depends -> select SYSFS
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>
2011-01-16 21:22:29 +00:00
Al Viro
d463a0c4b5 switch configfs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:03:12 -05:00
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
Nick Piggin
dc0474be3e fs: dcache rationalise dget variants
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>
2011-01-07 17:50:24 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin
da5029563a fs: dcache scale d_unhashed
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>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b7ab39f631 fs: dcache scale dentry refcount
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>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fe15ce446b fs: change d_delete semantics
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>
2011-01-07 17:50:18 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fbc8d4c046 config fs: avoid switching ->d_op on live dentry
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>
2011-01-07 17:50:17 +11:00
Al Viro
fc14f2fef6 convert get_sb_single() users
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:16:28 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
85fe4025c6 fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
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>
2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
Nick Piggin
75de46b98d fix setattr error handling in sysfs, configfs
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>
2010-06-04 13:27:53 -07:00
Nick Piggin
3322e79a38 fs: convert simple fs to new truncate
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>
2010-05-27 22:15:47 -04:00
Al Viro
d83c49f3e3 Fix the regression created by "set S_DEAD on unlink()..." commit
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>
2010-05-15 07:16:33 -04:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking 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>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Al Viro
9b6e310211 Fix configfs leak
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-14 09:05:42 -05:00
Jens Axboe
d993831fa7 writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
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>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Louis Rilling
420118caa3 configfs: Rework configfs_depend_item() locking and make lockdep happy
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>
2009-04-30 10:48:26 -07:00
Louis Rilling
e74cc06df3 configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir() and rmdir()
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>
2009-04-30 10:48:23 -07:00
Subrata Modak
3c48f23ada configfs: Fix Trivial Warning in fs/configfs/symlink.c
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>
2009-04-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Al Viro
296c2d8663 constify dentry_operations: configfs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
Mark Fasheh
436443f0f7 Revert "configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()"
This reverts commit 0e0333429a.

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>
2009-02-04 09:46:25 -08:00
Joel Becker
0e0333429a configfs: Silence lockdep on mkdir(), rmdir() and configfs_depend_item()
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>
2009-02-02 14:20:18 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4591dabe27 fs/Kconfig: move configfs out
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-01-22 13:15:56 +03:00
Al Viro
56ff5efad9 zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
... 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>
2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00