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<title>hpfs: optimize quad buffer loading</title>
<updated>2014-02-03T00:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz</email>
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<published>2014-01-28T23:11:33+00:00</published>
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HPFS needs to load 4 consecutive 512-byte sectors when accessing the
directory nodes or bitmaps.  We can't switch to 2048-byte block size
because files are allocated in the units of 512-byte sectors.

Previously, the driver would allocate a 2048-byte area using kmalloc,
copy the data from four buffers to this area and eventually copy them
back if they were modified.

In the current implementation of the buffer cache, buffers are allocated
in the pagecache.  That means that 4 consecutive 512-byte buffers are
stored in consecutive areas in the kernel address space.  So, we don't
need to allocate extra memory and copy the content of the buffers there.

This patch optimizes the code to avoid copying the buffers.  It checks
if the four buffers are stored in contiguous memory - if they are not,
it falls back to allocating a 2048-byte area and copying data there.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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HPFS needs to load 4 consecutive 512-byte sectors when accessing the
directory nodes or bitmaps.  We can't switch to 2048-byte block size
because files are allocated in the units of 512-byte sectors.

Previously, the driver would allocate a 2048-byte area using kmalloc,
copy the data from four buffers to this area and eventually copy them
back if they were modified.

In the current implementation of the buffer cache, buffers are allocated
in the pagecache.  That means that 4 consecutive 512-byte buffers are
stored in consecutive areas in the kernel address space.  So, we don't
need to allocate extra memory and copy the content of the buffers there.

This patch optimizes the code to avoid copying the buffers.  It checks
if the four buffers are stored in contiguous memory - if they are not,
it falls back to allocating a 2048-byte area and copying data there.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hpfs: remember free space</title>
<updated>2014-02-03T00:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T23:10:44+00:00</published>
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Previously, hpfs scanned all bitmaps each time the user asked for free
space using statfs.  This patch changes it so that hpfs scans the
bitmaps only once, remembes the free space and on next invocation of
statfs it returns the value instantly.

New versions of wine are hammering on the statfs syscall very heavily,
making some games unplayable when they're stored on hpfs, with load
times in minutes.

This should be backported to the stable kernels because it fixes
user-visible problem (excessive level load times in wine).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Previously, hpfs scanned all bitmaps each time the user asked for free
space using statfs.  This patch changes it so that hpfs scans the
bitmaps only once, remembes the free space and on next invocation of
statfs it returns the value instantly.

New versions of wine are hammering on the statfs syscall very heavily,
making some games unplayable when they're stored on hpfs, with load
times in minutes.

This should be backported to the stable kernels because it fixes
user-visible problem (excessive level load times in wine).

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>afs: proc cells and rootcell are writeable</title>
<updated>2014-02-01T18:59:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pali Rohár</name>
<email>pali.rohar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-28T20:26:44+00:00</published>
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Both proc files are writeable and used for configuring cells. But
there is missing correct mode flag for writeable files. Without
this patch both proc files are read only.

[ It turns out they aren't really read-only, since root can write to
  them even if the write bit isn't set due to CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE ]

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali.rohar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Both proc files are writeable and used for configuring cells. But
there is missing correct mode flag for writeable files. Without
this patch both proc files are read only.

[ It turns out they aren't really read-only, since root can write to
  them even if the write bit isn't set due to CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE ]

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár &lt;pali.rohar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6</title>
<updated>2014-02-01T18:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-01T18:52:45+00:00</published>
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Pull cifs fixes from Steve French:
 "A set of cifs fixes (mostly for symlinks, and SMB2 xattrs) and
  cleanups"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: Fix check for regular file in couldbe_mf_symlink()
  [CIFS] Fix SMB2 mounts so they don't try to set or get xattrs via cifs
  CIFS: Cleanup cifs open codepath
  CIFS: Remove extra indentation in cifs_sfu_type
  CIFS: Cleanup cifs_mknod
  CIFS: Cleanup CIFSSMBOpen
  cifs: Add support for follow_link on dfs shares under posix extensions
  cifs: move unix extension call to cifs_query_symlink()
  cifs: Re-order M-F Symlink code
  cifs: Add create MFSymlinks to protocol ops struct
  cifs: use protocol specific call for query_mf_symlink()
  cifs: Rename MF symlink function names
  cifs: Rename and cleanup open_query_close_cifs_symlink()
  cifs: Fix memory leak in cifs_hardlink()
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Pull cifs fixes from Steve French:
 "A set of cifs fixes (mostly for symlinks, and SMB2 xattrs) and
  cleanups"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: Fix check for regular file in couldbe_mf_symlink()
  [CIFS] Fix SMB2 mounts so they don't try to set or get xattrs via cifs
  CIFS: Cleanup cifs open codepath
  CIFS: Remove extra indentation in cifs_sfu_type
  CIFS: Cleanup cifs_mknod
  CIFS: Cleanup CIFSSMBOpen
  cifs: Add support for follow_link on dfs shares under posix extensions
  cifs: move unix extension call to cifs_query_symlink()
  cifs: Re-order M-F Symlink code
  cifs: Add create MFSymlinks to protocol ops struct
  cifs: use protocol specific call for query_mf_symlink()
  cifs: Rename MF symlink function names
  cifs: Rename and cleanup open_query_close_cifs_symlink()
  cifs: Fix memory leak in cifs_hardlink()
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-02-01T18:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-01T18:43:45+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "Several obvious fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat
  hfsplus: use xattr handlers for removexattr
  Typo in compat_sys_lseek() declaration
  fs/super.c: sync ro remount after blocking writers
  vfs: unexport the getname() symbol
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Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "Several obvious fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat
  hfsplus: use xattr handlers for removexattr
  Typo in compat_sys_lseek() declaration
  fs/super.c: sync ro remount after blocking writers
  vfs: unexport the getname() symbol
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.14-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T23:39:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T23:39:07+00:00</published>
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Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
 "Highlights:

   - Fix several races in nfs_revalidate_mapping
   - NFSv4.1 slot leakage in the pNFS files driver
   - Stable fix for a slot leak in nfs40_sequence_done
   - Don't reject NFSv4 servers that support ACLs with only ALLOW aces"

* tag 'nfs-for-3.14-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  nfs: initialize the ACL support bits to zero.
  NFSv4.1: Cleanup
  NFSv4.1: Clean up nfs41_sequence_done
  NFSv4: Fix a slot leak in nfs40_sequence_done
  NFSv4.1 free slot before resending I/O to MDS
  nfs: add memory barriers around NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA and NFS_INO_INVALIDATING
  NFS: Fix races in nfs_revalidate_mapping
  sunrpc: turn warn_gssd() log message into a dprintk()
  NFS: fix the handling of NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA flag in nfs_revalidate_mapping
  nfs: handle servers that support only ALLOW ACE type.
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Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
 "Highlights:

   - Fix several races in nfs_revalidate_mapping
   - NFSv4.1 slot leakage in the pNFS files driver
   - Stable fix for a slot leak in nfs40_sequence_done
   - Don't reject NFSv4 servers that support ACLs with only ALLOW aces"

* tag 'nfs-for-3.14-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
  nfs: initialize the ACL support bits to zero.
  NFSv4.1: Cleanup
  NFSv4.1: Clean up nfs41_sequence_done
  NFSv4: Fix a slot leak in nfs40_sequence_done
  NFSv4.1 free slot before resending I/O to MDS
  nfs: add memory barriers around NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA and NFS_INO_INVALIDATING
  NFS: Fix races in nfs_revalidate_mapping
  sunrpc: turn warn_gssd() log message into a dprintk()
  NFS: fix the handling of NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA flag in nfs_revalidate_mapping
  nfs: handle servers that support only ALLOW ACE type.
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<entry>
<title>Fix mountpoint reference leakage in linkat</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T22:33:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Drokin</name>
<email>green@linuxhacker.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T20:41:58+00:00</published>
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Recent changes to retry on ESTALE in linkat
(commit 442e31ca5a49e398351b2954b51f578353fdf210)
introduced a mountpoint reference leak and a small memory
leak in case a filesystem link operation returns ESTALE
which is pretty normal for distributed filesystems like
lustre, nfs and so on.
Free old_path in such a case.

[AV: there was another missing path_put() nearby - on the previous
goto retry]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin: &lt;green@linuxhacker.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Recent changes to retry on ESTALE in linkat
(commit 442e31ca5a49e398351b2954b51f578353fdf210)
introduced a mountpoint reference leak and a small memory
leak in case a filesystem link operation returns ESTALE
which is pretty normal for distributed filesystems like
lustre, nfs and so on.
Free old_path in such a case.

[AV: there was another missing path_put() nearby - on the previous
goto retry]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin: &lt;green@linuxhacker.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hfsplus: use xattr handlers for removexattr</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T19:44:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T07:59:19+00:00</published>
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hfsplus was already using the handlers for get and set operations,
and with the removal of can_set_xattr we've now allow operations that
wouldn't otherwise be allowed.

With this we can also centralize the special-casing of the osx.
attrs that don't have prefixes on disk in the osx xattr handlers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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hfsplus was already using the handlers for get and set operations,
and with the removal of can_set_xattr we've now allow operations that
wouldn't otherwise be allowed.

With this we can also centralize the special-casing of the osx.
attrs that don't have prefixes on disk in the osx xattr handlers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs/super.c: sync ro remount after blocking writers</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T19:29:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Ruder</name>
<email>andrew.ruder@elecsyscorp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T15:26:54+00:00</published>
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Move sync_filesystem() after sb_prepare_remount_readonly().  If writers
sneak in anywhere from sync_filesystem() to sb_prepare_remount_readonly()
it can cause inodes to be dirtied and writeback to occur well after
sys_mount() has completely successfully.

This was spotted by corrupted ubifs filesystems on reboot, but appears
that it can cause issues with any filesystem using writeback.

Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
CC: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Co-authored-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder &lt;andrew.ruder@elecsyscorp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Move sync_filesystem() after sb_prepare_remount_readonly().  If writers
sneak in anywhere from sync_filesystem() to sb_prepare_remount_readonly()
it can cause inodes to be dirtied and writeback to occur well after
sys_mount() has completely successfully.

This was spotted by corrupted ubifs filesystems on reboot, but appears
that it can cause issues with any filesystem using writeback.

Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
CC: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Co-authored-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder &lt;andrew.ruder@elecsyscorp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: unexport the getname() symbol</title>
<updated>2014-01-31T19:28:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-27T18:33:28+00:00</published>
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Leaving getname() exported when putname() isn't is a bad idea.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Leaving getname() exported when putname() isn't is a bad idea.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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