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Al Viro
3e93cd6718 Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
Pure code move; two new helper functions for nfsd and daemonize
(unshare_fs_struct() and daemonize_fs_struct() resp.; for now -
the same code as used to be in callers).  unshare_fs_struct()
exported (for nfsd, as copy_fs_struct()/exit_fs() used to be),
copy_fs_struct() and exit_fs() don't need exports anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31 23:00:26 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
3ae5080f4c 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: (37 commits)
  fs: avoid I_NEW inodes
  Merge code for single and multiple-instance mounts
  Remove get_init_pts_sb()
  Move common mknod_ptmx() calls into caller
  Parse mount options just once and copy them to super block
  Unroll essentials of do_remount_sb() into devpts
  vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void
  fs: move bdev code out of buffer.c
  constify dentry_operations: rest
  constify dentry_operations: configfs
  constify dentry_operations: sysfs
  constify dentry_operations: JFS
  constify dentry_operations: OCFS2
  constify dentry_operations: GFS2
  constify dentry_operations: FAT
  constify dentry_operations: FUSE
  constify dentry_operations: procfs
  constify dentry_operations: ecryptfs
  constify dentry_operations: CIFS
  constify dentry_operations: AFS
  ...
2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2c9e15a011 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-quota-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-quota-2.6: (27 commits)
  ext2: Zero our b_size in ext2_quota_read()
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in fs/Kconfig
  quota: Coding style fixes
  quota: Remove superfluous inlines
  quota: Remove uppercase aliases for quota functions.
  nfsd: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  jfs: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  udf: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  ufs: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  reiserfs: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  ext4: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  ext3: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  ext2: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  ramfs: Remove quota call
  vfs: Use lowercase names of quota functions
  quota: Remove dqbuf_t and other cleanups
  quota: Remove NODQUOT macro
  quota: Make global quota locks cacheline aligned
  quota: Move quota files into separate directory
  ext4: quota reservation for delayed allocation
  ...
2009-03-27 14:48:34 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
c8fe8f30c7 cleanup may_open
Add a switch for the various i_mode fmt cases, and remove the comment
about writeability of devices nodes - that part is handled in
inode_permission and comment on (briefly) there.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:43:57 -04:00
Jan Kara
9e3509e273 vfs: Use lowercase names of quota functions
Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-26 02:18:35 +01:00
James Morris
cb5629b10d Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/namei.c

Manually merged per:

diff --cc fs/namei.c
index 734f2b5,bbc15c2..0000000
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@@ -860,9 -848,8 +849,10 @@@ static int __link_path_walk(const char
  		nd->flags |= LOOKUP_CONTINUE;
  		err = exec_permission_lite(inode);
  		if (err == -EAGAIN)
- 			err = vfs_permission(nd, MAY_EXEC);
+ 			err = inode_permission(nd->path.dentry->d_inode,
+ 					       MAY_EXEC);
 +		if (!err)
 +			err = ima_path_check(&nd->path, MAY_EXEC);
   		if (err)
  			break;

@@@ -1525,14 -1506,9 +1509,14 @@@ int may_open(struct path *path, int acc
  		flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
  	}

- 	error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
+ 	error = inode_permission(inode, acc_mode);
  	if (error)
  		return error;
 +
- 	error = ima_path_check(&nd->path,
++	error = ima_path_check(path,
 +			       acc_mode & (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC));
 +	if (error)
 +		return error;
  	/*
  	 * An append-only file must be opened in append mode for writing.
  	 */

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-02-06 11:01:45 +11:00
Mimi Zohar
6146f0d5e4 integrity: IMA hooks
This patch replaces the generic integrity hooks, for which IMA registered
itself, with IMA integrity hooks in the appropriate places directly
in the fs directory.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-02-06 09:05:30 +11:00
Heiko Carstens
2e4d0924eb [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 29
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:30 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
3cdad42884 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 20
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:26 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
a26eab2400 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 15
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
Heiko Carstens
3480b25743 [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
520c853466 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:
  inotify: fix type errors in interfaces
  fix breakage in reiserfs_new_inode()
  fix the treatment of jfs special inodes
  vfs: remove duplicate code in get_fs_type()
  add a vfs_fsync helper
  sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify
  zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
  inode->i_op is never NULL
  ntfs: don't NULL i_op
  isofs check for NULL ->i_op in root directory is dead code
  affs: do not zero ->i_op
  kill suid bit only for regular files
  vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
2009-01-05 18:32:06 -08:00
Al Viro
acfa4380ef inode->i_op is never NULL
We used to have rather schizophrenic set of checks for NULL ->i_op even
though it had been eliminated years ago.  You'd need to go out of your
way to set it to NULL explicitly _and_ a bunch of code would die on
such inodes anyway.  After killing two remaining places that still
did that bogosity, all that crap can go away.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
Nick Piggin
54566b2c15 fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.

The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.

Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).

This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
  untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
  just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
  logic.   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-04 13:33:20 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
1239f26c05 make INIT_FS use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED initialization
[AV: rediffed on top of unification of init_fs]
Initialization of init_fs still uses the deprecated RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED macro.
This patch updates it to use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(lock) macro.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Al Viro
18d8fda7c3 take init_fs to saner place
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
cb23beb551 kill vfs_permission
With all the nameidata removal there's no point anymore for this helper.
Of the three callers left two will go away with the next lookup series
anyway.

Also add proper kerneldoc to inode_permission as this is the main
permission check routine now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
3fb64190aa pass a struct path * to may_open
No need for the nameidata in may_open - a struct path is enough.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
b4091d5f6f kill walk_init_root
walk_init_root is a tiny helper that is marked __always_inline, has just
one caller and an unused argument.  Just merge it into the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
66f221875d remove incorrect comment in inode_permission
We now pass on all MAY_ flags to the filesystems permission routines,
so remove the comment stating the contrary.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Duane Griffin
ebd09abbd9 vfs: ensure page symlinks are NUL-terminated
On-disk data corruption could cause a page link to have its i_size set
to PAGE_SIZE (or a multiple thereof) and its contents all non-NUL.
NUL-terminate the link name to ensure this doesn't cause further
problems for the kernel.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:39 -05:00
Kentaro Takeda
be6d3e56a6 introduce new LSM hooks where vfsmount is available.
Add new LSM hooks for path-based checks.  Call them on directory-modifying
operations at the points where we still know the vfsmount involved.

Signed-off-by: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Toshiharu Harada <haradats@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:37 -05:00
James Morris
ec98ce480a Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c

Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-04 17:16:36 +11:00
Hugh Dickins
f9454548e1 don't unlink an active swapfile
Peter Cordes is sorry that he rm'ed his swapfiles while they were in use,
he then had no pathname to swapoff.  It's a curious little oversight, but
not one worth a lot of hackery.  Kudos to Willy Tarreau for turning this
around from a discussion of synthetic pathnames to how to prevent unlink.
Mimic immutable: prohibit unlinking an active swapfile in may_delete()
(and don't worry my little head over the tiny race window).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Cordes <peter@cordes.ca>
Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Cc: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:59 -08:00
David Howells
da9592edeb CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the filesystem subsystem
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:05 +11:00
Miklos Szeredi
f696a3659f [PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission()
For execute permission on a regular files we need to check if file has
any execute bits at all, regardless of capabilites.

This check is normally performed by generic_permission() but was also
added to the case when the filesystem defines its own ->permission()
method.  In the latter case the filesystem should be responsible for
performing this check.

Move the check from inode_permission() inside filesystems which are
not calling generic_permission().

Create a helper function execute_ok() that returns true if the inode
is a directory or if any execute bits are present in i_mode.

Also fix up the following code:

 - coda control file is never executable
 - sysctl files are never executable
 - hfs_permission seems broken on MAY_EXEC, remove
 - hfsplus_permission is eqivalent to generic_permission(), remove

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-10-23 05:13:25 -04:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
4e9ed2f85a [PATCH vfs-2.6 6/6] vfs: add LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET intent
This adds LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET intent for lookup of rename destination.

LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET is going to be used like LOOKUP_CREATE. But since
the destination of rename() can be existing directory entry, so it has a
difference. Although that difference doesn't matter in my usage, this
tells it to user of this intent.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23 05:13:20 -04:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
0612d9fb27 [PATCH vfs-2.6 5/6] vfs: remove LOOKUP_PARENT from non LOOKUP_PARENT lookup
lookup_hash() with LOOKUP_PARENT is bogus. And this prepares to add
new intent on those path.

The user of LOOKUP_PARENT intent is nfs only, and it checks whether
nd->flags has LOOKUP_CREATE or LOOKUP_OPEN, so the result is same.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23 05:13:19 -04:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
e2761a1167 [PATCH vfs-2.6 2/6] vfs: add d_ancestor()
This adds d_ancestor() instead of d_isparent(), then use it.

If new_dentry == old_dentry, is_subdir() returns 1, looks strange.
"new_dentry == old_dentry" is not subdir obviously. But I'm not
checking callers for now, so this keeps current behavior.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23 05:13:16 -04:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
871c0067d5 [PATCH vfs-2.6 1/6] vfs: replace parent == dentry->d_parent by IS_ROOT()
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23 05:13:16 -04:00
Al Viro
3516586a42 [PATCH] make O_EXCL in nd->intent.flags visible in nd->flags
New flag: LOOKUP_EXCL.  Set before doing the final step of pathname
resolution on the paths that have LOOKUP_CREATE and O_EXCL.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:56 -04:00
Al Viro
8737f3a1b3 [PATCH] get rid of path_lookup_create()
... and don't pass bogus flags when we are just looking for parent.
Fold __path_lookup_intent_open() into path_lookup_open() while we
are at it; that's the only remaining caller.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:54 -04:00
Al Viro
d181146572 [PATCH] new helper - kern_path()
Analog of lookup_path(), takes struct path *.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 03:34:19 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
a95164d979 [patch 3/4] vfs: remove unused nameidata argument of may_create()
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 11:25:30 -04:00
Stephen Smalley
f418b00607 Re: BUG at security/selinux/avc.c:883 (was: Re: linux-next: Tree
for July 17: early crash on x86-64)

SELinux needs MAY_APPEND to be passed down to the security hook.
Otherwise, we get permission denials when only append permission is
granted by policy even if the opening process specified O_APPEND.
Shows up as a regression in the ltp selinux testsuite, fixed by
this patch.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-01 11:25:21 -04:00
Al Viro
964bd18362 [PATCH] get rid of __user_path_lookup_open
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:41 -04:00
Al Viro
2ad94ae654 [PATCH] new (local) helper: user_path_parent()
Preparation to untangling intents mess: reduce the number of do_path_lookup()
callers.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:35 -04:00
Al Viro
2d8f30380a [PATCH] sanitize __user_walk_fd() et.al.
* do not pass nameidata; struct path is all the callers want.
* switch to new helpers:
	user_path_at(dfd, pathname, flags, &path)
	user_path(pathname, &path)
	user_lpath(pathname, &path)
	user_path_dir(pathname, &path)  (fail if not a directory)
  The last 3 are trivial macro wrappers for the first one.
* remove nameidata in callers.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:34 -04:00
Al Viro
f419a2e3b6 [PATCH] kill nameidata passing to permission(), rename to inode_permission()
Incidentally, the name that gives hundreds of false positives on grep
is not a good idea...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:31 -04:00
Al Viro
30524472c2 [PATCH] take noexec checks to very few callers that care
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:30 -04:00
Al Viro
672b16b2f6 [PATCH] more nameidata removal: exec_permission_lite() doesn't need it
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:23 -04:00
Al Viro
b77b0646ef [PATCH] pass MAY_OPEN to vfs_permission() explicitly
... and get rid of the last "let's deduce mask from nameidata->flags"
bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:22 -04:00
Al Viro
a110343f0d [PATCH] fix MAY_CHDIR/MAY_ACCESS/LOOKUP_ACCESS mess
* MAY_CHDIR is redundant - it's an equivalent of MAY_ACCESS
* MAY_ACCESS on fuse should affect only the last step of pathname resolution
* fchdir() and chroot() should pass MAY_ACCESS, for the same reason why
  chdir() needs that.
* now that we pass MAY_ACCESS explicitly in all cases, LOOKUP_ACCESS can be
  removed; it has no business being in nameidata.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:21 -04:00
Al Viro
7f2da1e7d0 [PATCH] kill altroot
long overdue...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
Al Viro
8bb79224b8 [PATCH] permission checks for chdir need special treatment only on the last step
... so we ought to pass MAY_CHDIR to vfs_permission() instead of having
it triggered on every step of preceding pathname resolution.  LOOKUP_CHDIR
is killed by that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:19 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
db2e747b14 [patch 5/5] vfs: remove mode parameter from vfs_symlink()
Remove the unused mode parameter from vfs_symlink and callers.

Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for noticing.

CC: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-07-26 20:53:18 -04:00
Tetsuo Handa
7e79eedb3b [patch 4/5] vfs: reuse local variable in vfs_link()
Why not reuse "inode" which is assigned as

  struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;

in the beginning of vfs_link() ?

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-07-26 20:53:17 -04:00
Al Viro
e6305c43ed [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype
* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares
  about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
* kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
* sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
* fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new
  MAY_... found in mask.

The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
d70b67c8bc [patch] vfs: fix lookup on deleted directory
Lookup can install a child dentry for a deleted directory.  This keeps
the directory dentry alive, and the inode pinned in the cache and on
disk, even after all external references have gone away.

This isn't a big problem normally, since memory pressure or umount
will clear out the directory dentry and its children, releasing the
inode.  But for UBIFS this causes problems because its orphan area can
overflow.

Fix this by returning ENOENT for all lookups on a S_DEAD directory
before creating a child dentry.

Thanks to Zoltan Sogor for noticing this while testing UBIFS, and
Artem for the excellent analysis of the problem and testing.

Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:05 -04:00
Marcin Slusarz
694a1764d6 [patch 3/4] vfs: fix ERR_PTR abuse in generic_readlink
generic_readlink calls ERR_PTR for negative and positive values
(vfs_readlink returns length of "link"), but it should not
(not an errno) and does not need to.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 11:52:30 -04:00