get_neighbors() is used to get the left and/or right blocks
against a given one in order to balance a tree.
sb_bread() is used to read the buffer of these neighors blocks and
while it waits for this operation, it might sleep.
The bkl was released at this point, and then we can also release
the write lock before calling sb_bread().
This is safe because if the filesystem is changed after this
lock release, the function returns REPEAT_SEARCH (aka SCHEDULE_OCCURRED
in the function header comments) in order to repeat the neighbhor
research.
[ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
prepare_for_delete_or_cut() can process several types of items, including
indirect items, ie: items which contain no file data but pointers to
unformatted nodes scattering the datas of a file.
In this case it has to zero out these pointers to block numbers of
unformatted nodes and release the bitmap from these block numbers.
It can take some time, so a rescheduling() is performed between each
block processed. We can safely release the write lock while
rescheduling(), like the bkl did, because the code checks just after
if the item has moved after sleeping.
[ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
When do_journal_end() copies data to the journal blocks buffers in memory,
it reschedules if needed between each block copied and dirtyfied.
We can also release the write lock at this rescheduling stage,
like did the bkl implicitly.
[ Impact: release the reiserfs write lock when it is not needed ]
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Impact: fix a deadlock
reiserfs_dirty_inode() is the super_operations::dirty_inode() callback
of reiserfs. It can be called from different contexts where the write
lock can be already held.
But this function also grab the write lock (possibly recursively).
Subsequent release of the lock before sleep will actually not release
the lock if the caller of mark_inode_dirty() (which in turn calls
reiserfs_dirty_inode()) already owns the lock.
A typical case:
reiserfs_write_end() {
acquire_write_lock()
mark_inode_dirty() {
reiserfs_dirty_inode() {
reacquire_write_lock() {
journal_begin() {
do_journal_begin_r() {
/*
* fail to release, still
* one depth of lock
*/
release_write_lock()
reiserfs_wait_on_write_block() {
wait_event()
The event is usually provided by something which needs the write lock but
it hasn't been released.
We use reiserfs_write_lock_once() here to ensure we only grab the
write lock in one level.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239680065-25013-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a deadlock
reiserfs_truncate_file() can be called from multiple context where
the write lock can be already hold or not.
This function also acquire (possibly recursively) the write
lock. Subsequent releases before sleeping will not actually release
the lock because we may be in more than one lock depth degree.
A typical case is:
reiserfs_file_release {
acquire_the_lock()
reiserfs_truncate_file()
reacquire_the_lock()
journal_begin() {
do_journal_begin_r() {
reiserfs_wait_on_write_block() {
/*
* Not released because still one
* depth owned
*/
release_lock()
wait_for_event()
At this stage the event never happen because the one which provides
it needs the write lock.
We use reiserfs_write_lock_once() here to ensure that we don't acquire the
write lock recursively.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sometimes we don't want to recursively hold the per superblock write
lock because we want to be sure it is actually released when we come
to sleep.
This patch introduces the necessary tools for that.
reiserfs_write_lock_once() does the same job than reiserfs_write_lock()
except that it won't try to acquire recursively the lock if the current
task already owns it. Also the lock_depth before the call of this function
is returned.
reiserfs_write_unlock_once() unlock only if reiserfs_write_lock_once()
returned a depth equal to -1, ie: only if it actually locked.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239680065-25013-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a deadlock
The j_flush_mutex is acquired safely in journal.c:
if we can't take it, we free the reiserfs per superblock lock
and wait a bit.
But we have a remaining place in kupdate_transactions() where
j_flush_mutex is still acquired traditionnaly. Thus the following
scenario (warned by lockdep) can happen:
A B
mutex_lock(&write_lock) mutex_lock(&write_lock)
mutex_lock(&j_flush_mutex) mutex_lock(&j_flush_mutex) //block
mutex_unlock(&write_lock)
sleep...
mutex_lock(&write_lock) //deadlock
Fix this by using reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe() in kupdate_transactions().
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239660635-12940-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch is an attempt to remove the Bkl based locking scheme from
reiserfs and is intended.
It is a bit inspired from an old attempt by Peter Zijlstra:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0704.2/2174.html
The bkl is heavily used in this filesystem to prevent from
concurrent write accesses on the filesystem.
Reiserfs makes a deep use of the specific properties of the Bkl:
- It can be acqquired recursively by a same task
- It is released on the schedule() calls and reacquired when schedule() returns
The two properties above are a roadmap for the reiserfs write locking so it's
very hard to simply replace it with a common mutex.
- We need a recursive-able locking unless we want to restructure several blocks
of the code.
- We need to identify the sites where the bkl was implictly relaxed
(schedule, wait, sync, etc...) so that we can in turn release and
reacquire our new lock explicitly.
Such implicit releases of the lock are often required to let other
resources producer/consumer do their job or we can suffer unexpected
starvations or deadlocks.
So the new lock that replaces the bkl here is a per superblock mutex with a
specific property: it can be acquired recursively by a same task, like the
bkl.
For such purpose, we integrate a lock owner and a lock depth field on the
superblock information structure.
The first axis on this patch is to turn reiserfs_write_(un)lock() function
into a wrapper to manage this mutex. Also some explicit calls to
lock_kernel() have been converted to reiserfs_write_lock() helpers.
The second axis is to find the important blocking sites (schedule...(),
wait_on_buffer(), sync_dirty_buffer(), etc...) and then apply an explicit
release of the write lock on these locations before blocking. Then we can
safely wait for those who can give us resources or those who need some.
Typically this is a fight between the current writer, the reiserfs workqueue
(aka the async commiter) and the pdflush threads.
The third axis is a consequence of the second. The write lock is usually
on top of a lock dependency chain which can include the journal lock, the
flush lock or the commit lock. So it's dangerous to release and trying to
reacquire the write lock while we still hold other locks.
This is fine with the bkl:
T1 T2
lock_kernel()
mutex_lock(A)
unlock_kernel()
// do something
lock_kernel()
mutex_lock(A) -> already locked by T1
schedule() (and then unlock_kernel())
lock_kernel()
mutex_unlock(A)
....
This is not fine with a mutex:
T1 T2
mutex_lock(write)
mutex_lock(A)
mutex_unlock(write)
// do something
mutex_lock(write)
mutex_lock(A) -> already locked by T1
schedule()
mutex_lock(write) -> already locked by T2
deadlock
The solution in this patch is to provide a helper which releases the write
lock and sleep a bit if we can't lock a mutex that depend on it. It's another
simulation of the bkl behaviour.
The last axis is to locate the fs callbacks that are called with the bkl held,
according to Documentation/filesystem/Locking.
Those are:
- reiserfs_remount
- reiserfs_fill_super
- reiserfs_put_super
Reiserfs didn't need to explicitly lock because of the context of these callbacks.
But now we must take care of that with the new locking.
After this patch, reiserfs suffers from a slight performance regression (for now).
On UP, a high volume write with dd reports an average of 27 MB/s instead
of 30 MB/s without the patch applied.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1239070789-13354-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT
This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 1faa16d228 accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Fix various silly problems wrt mnt_namespace.h:
- exit_mnt_ns() isn't used, remove it
- done that, sched.h and nsproxy.h inclusions aren't needed
- mount.h inclusion was need for vfsmount_lock, but no longer
- remove mnt_namespace.h inclusion from files which don't use anything
from mnt_namespace.h
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
helpers: get_cached_acl(inode, type), set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl),
forget_cached_acl(inode, type).
ubifs/xattr.c needed includes reordered, the rest is a plain switchover.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
reiserfs uses NULL as "unknown" and ERR_PTR(-ENODATA) as "no ACL";
several codepaths store the former instead of the latter.
All those codepaths go through iset_acl() and all cases when it's
called with NULL acl are for the second variety, so the minimal
fix is to teach iset_acl() to deal with that.
Proper fix is to switch to more usual conventions and avoid back
and forth between internally used ERR_PTR(-ENODATA) and NULL
expected by the rest of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reiserfs doesn't use lock_super anywhere internally, and ->remount_fs
which calls reiserfs_resize does have it currently but also expects it
to be held on return, so there's no business for the unlock_super here.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked by Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Several code paths in reiserfs have a construct like:
if (is_direntry_le_ih(ih = B_N_PITEM_HEAD(src, item_num))) ...
which, in addition to being ugly, end up causing compiler warnings with
gcc 4.4.0. Previous compilers didn't issue a warning.
fs/reiserfs/do_balan.c:1273: warning: operation on `aux_ih' may be undefined
fs/reiserfs/lbalance.c:393: warning: operation on `ih' may be undefined
fs/reiserfs/lbalance.c:421: warning: operation on `ih' may be undefined
fs/reiserfs/lbalance.c:777: warning: operation on `ih' may be undefined
I believe this is due to the ih being passed to macros which evaluate the
argument more than once. This is old code and we haven't seen any
problems with it, but this patch eliminates the warnings.
It converts the multiple evaluation macros to static inlines and does a
preassignment for the cases that were causing the warnings because that
code is just ugly.
Reported-by: Chris Mason <mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move BKL into ->put_super from the only caller. A couple of
filesystems had trivial enough ->put_super (only kfree and NULLing of
s_fs_info + stuff in there) to not get any locking: coda, cramfs, efs,
hugetlbfs, omfs, qnx4, shmem, all others got the full treatment. Most
of them probably don't need it, but I'd rather sort that out individually.
Preferably after all the other BKL pushdowns in that area.
[AV: original used to move lock_super() down as well; these changes are
removed since we don't do lock_super() at all in generic_shutdown_super()
now]
[AV: fuse, btrfs and xfs are known to need no damn BKL, exempt]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Make sure a superblock really is writeable by checking MS_RDONLY
under s_umount. sync_filesystems needed some re-arragement for
that, but all but one sync_filesystem caller had the correct locking
already so that we could add that check there. cachefiles grew
s_umount locking.
I've also added a WARN_ON to sync_filesystem to assert this for
future callers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We just did a full fs writeout using sync_filesystem before, and if
that's not enough for the filesystem it can perform it's own writeout
in ->put_super, which many filesystems already do.
Move a call to foofs_write_super into every foofs_put_super for now to
guarantee identical behaviour until it's cleaned up by the individual
filesystem maintainers.
Exceptions:
- affs already has identical copy & pasted code at the beginning of
affs_put_super so no need to do it twice.
- xfs does the right thing without it and I have changes pending for
the xfs tree touching this are so I don't really need conflicts
here..
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds an -oexpose_privroot option to allow access to the privroot.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This adds CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR protection from reiserfs_permission.
This is needed to avoid warnings during file deletions and chowns with
xattrs disabled.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This avoids an Oops in open_xa_root that can occur when deleting a file
with xattrs disabled. It assumes that the xattr root will be there, and
that is not guaranteed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With xattr cleanup even with xattrs disabled, much of the initial setup
is still performed. Some #ifdefs are just not needed since the options
they protect wouldn't be available anyway.
This cleans those up.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Put generic_show_options read access to s_options under rcu_read_lock,
split save_mount_options() into "we are setting it the first time"
(uses in foo_fill_super()) and "we are relacing and freeing the old one",
synchronize_rcu() before kfree() in the latter.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
With Al Viro's patch to move privroot lookup to fs mount, there's no need
to have special code to hide the privroot in reiserfs_lookup.
I've also cleaned up the privroot hiding in reiserfs_readdir_dentry and
removed the last user of reiserfs_xattrs().
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The security.* xattrs are ignored for xattr files, so don't create them.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The xattr_root caching was broken from my previous patch set. It wouldn't
cause corruption, but could cause decreased performance due to allocating
a larger chunk of the journal (~ 27 blocks) than it would actually use.
This patch loads the xattr root dentry at xattr initialization and creates
it on-demand. Since we're using the cached dentry, there's no point
in keeping lookup_or_create_dir around, so that's removed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... even if it's a negative dentry. That way we can set ->d_op on
root before anyone could race with us. Simplify d_compare(), while
we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2.6.30-rc3 introduced some sanity checks in the VFS code to avoid NFS
bugs by ensuring that lookup_one_len is always called under i_mutex.
This patch expands the i_mutex locking to enclose lookup_one_len. This was
always required, but not not enforced in the reiserfs code since it
does locking around the xattr interactions with the xattr_sem.
This is obvious enough, and it survived an overnight 50 thread ACL test.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c
Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f
Trim includes of fdtable.h
Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som
Trim includes in binfmt_elf
Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary()
Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
New helper - current_umask()
check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing
New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2)
Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
Make reiserfs3 return f_fsid info for statfs(2). By Andreas' suggestion,
this patch populates a persistent f_fsid between boots/mounts with help of
on-disk uuid record.
Randy Dunlap reported a compiling error from v2 patch like:
fs/built-in.o: In function `reiserfs_statfs':
super.c:(.text+0x7332b): undefined reference to `crc32_le'
super.c:(.text+0x7333f): undefined reference to `crc32_le'
Also he provided helpful solution to fix this error. The modification of v3
patch is based on Randy's suggestion, add 'select CRC32' in fs/reiserfs/Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coly.li@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
Revert "proc: revert /proc/uptime to ->read_proc hook"
proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner
proc 1/2: do PDE usecounting even for ->read_proc, ->write_proc
proc: fix sparse warnings in pagemap_read()
proc: move fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt comment into a source file
Setting ->owner as done currently (pde->owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy
as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL
->owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting
in module refcount underflow.
We can keep ->owner and supply it at registration time like ->proc_fops
and ->data.
But this leaves ->owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment)
and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when
switching ->owner. ->proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give
some thoughts.
->read_proc/->write_proc were just fixed to not require ->owner for
protection.
rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm.
And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular.
We definitely don't want such modular code.
Removing ->owner will also make PDE smaller.
So, let's nuke it.
Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
This patch renames n_, c_, etc variables to something more sane. This
is the sixth in a series of patches to rip out some of the awful
variable naming in reiserfs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is a simple s/p_._//g to the reiserfs code. This is the
fifth in a series of patches to rip out some of the awful variable
naming in reiserfs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is a simple s/p_s_tb/tb/g to the reiserfs code. This is the
fourth in a series of patches to rip out some of the awful variable
naming in reiserfs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is a simple s/p_s_inode/inode/g to the reiserfs code. This
is the third in a series of patches to rip out some of the awful
variable naming in reiserfs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is a simple s/p_s_bh/bh/g to the reiserfs code. This is the
second in a series of patches to rip out some of the awful variable
naming in reiserfs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch is a simple s/p_s_sb/sb/g to the reiserfs code. This is the
first in a series of patches to rip out some of the awful variable
naming in reiserfs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch strips trailing whitespace from the reiserfs code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch cleans up some redundancies in the reiserfs tree path code.
decrement_bcount() is essentially the same function as brelse(), so we use
that instead.
decrement_counters_in_path() is exactly the same function as pathrelse(), so
we kill that and use pathrelse() instead.
There's also a bit of cleanup that makes the code a bit more readable.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the first in a series of patches to make balance_leaf() not
quite so insane.
This patch factors out the open coded initializations of buffer_info
structures and defines a few initializers for the 4 cases they're used.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some time ago, some changes were made to make security inode attributes
be atomically written during inode creation. ReiserFS fell behind in
this area, but with the reworking of the xattr code, it's now fairly
easy to add.
The following patch adds the ability for security attributes to be added
automatically during inode creation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The current reiserfs xattr implementation open codes reiserfs_readdir
and frees the path before calling the filldir function. Typically, the
filldir function is something that modifies the file system, such as a
chown or an inode deletion that also require reading of an inode
associated with each direntry. Since the file system is modified, the
path retained becomes invalid for the next run. In addition, it runs
backwards in attempt to minimize activity.
This is clearly suboptimal from a code cleanliness perspective as well
as performance-wise.
This patch implements a generic reiserfs_for_each_xattr that uses the
generic readdir and a specific filldir routine that simply populates an
array of dentries and then performs a specific operation on them. When
all files have been operated on, it then calls the operation on the
directory itself.
The result is a noticable code reduction and better performance.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Deadlocks are possible in the xattr code between the journal lock and the
xattr sems.
This patch implements journalling for xattr operations. The benefit is
twofold:
* It gets rid of the deadlock possibility by always ensuring that xattr
write operations are initiated inside a transaction.
* It corrects the problem where xattr backing files aren't considered any
differently than normal files, despite the fact they are metadata.
I discussed the added journal load with Chris Mason, and we decided that
since xattrs (versus other journal activity) is fairly rare, the introduction
of larger transactions to support journaled xattrs wouldn't be too big a deal.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
