linux.git/fs/libfs.c, branch v2.6.21.7

[PATCH] shmem and simple const super_operations

2007-03-05T15:57:51+00:00

shmem's super_operations were missed from the recent const-ification;
and simple_fill_super()'s, which can share with get_sb_pseudo()'s.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fs: fix libfs data leak

2007-02-21T01:10:15+00:00

simple_prepare_write leaks uninitialised kernel data.  This happens because
the it leaves an uninitialised "hole" over the part of the page that the
write is expected to go to.  This is fine, but it then marks the page
uptodate, which means a concurrent read can come in and copy the
uninitialised memory into userspace before it written to.

Fix it by simply marking it uptodate in simple_commit_write instead, after
the hole has been filled in.  This could theoretically break an fs that
uses simple_prepare_write and not simple_commit_write, and that relies on
the incorrect simple_prepare_write behaviour.  Luckily, none of those
exists in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

2007-02-12T17:48:47+00:00

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] VFS: change struct file to use struct path

2006-12-08T16:28:41+00:00

This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper

2006-10-01T07:39:30+00:00

This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
more hooks.  This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: unlink: monitor i_nlink

2006-10-01T07:39:30+00:00

When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a write must be
performed in order to drop the inode from the filesystem.

We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted r/o between
the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write occurs.

So, add a little helper function to do the decrements.  We'll tie into it in a
bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] libfs: remove page up-to-date check from simple_readpage

2006-09-29T16:18:06+00:00

Remove the unnecessary PageUptodate check from simple_readpage.  The only
two callers for ->readpage that don't have explicit PageUptodate check are
read_cache_pages and page_cache_read which operate on newly allocated pages
which don't have the flag set.

[akpm: use the allegedly-faster clear_page(), too]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure

2006-09-27T15:26:18+00:00

This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode.  Filesystems that want
to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
values for i_blksize.

[bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
[akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private

2006-09-27T15:26:17+00:00

The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86.  (It would be more on an x86_64 system).  This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).

This patch:

The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer.  Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer.  This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.

[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds