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* [PATCH] configfs: Prevent userspace from creating new entries under ↵Louis Rilling2008-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | attaching directories process 1: process 2: configfs_mkdir("A") attach_group("A") attach_item("A") d_instantiate("A") populate_groups("A") mutex_lock("A") attach_group("A/B") attach_item("A") d_instantiate("A/B") mkdir("A/B/C") do_path_lookup("A/B/C", LOOKUP_PARENT) ok lookup_create("A/B/C") mutex_lock("A/B") ok configfs_mkdir("A/B/C") ok attach_group("A/C") attach_item("A/C") d_instantiate("A/C") populate_groups("A/C") mutex_lock("A/C") attach_group("A/C/D") attach_item("A/C/D") failure mutex_unlock("A/C") detach_groups("A/C") nothing to do mkdir("A/C/E") do_path_lookup("A/C/E", LOOKUP_PARENT) ok lookup_create("A/C/E") mutex_lock("A/C") ok configfs_mkdir("A/C/E") ok detach_item("A/C") d_delete("A/C") mutex_unlock("A") detach_groups("A") mutex_lock("A/B") detach_group("A/B") detach_groups("A/B") nothing since no _default_ group detach_item("A/B") mutex_unlock("A/B") d_delete("A/B") detach_item("A") d_delete("A") Two bugs: 1/ "A/B/C" and "A/C/E" are created, but never removed while their parent are removed in the end. The same could happen with symlink() instead of mkdir(). 2/ "A" and "A/C" inodes are not locked while detach_item() is called on them, which may probably confuse VFS. This commit fixes 1/, tagging new directories with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING before building the inode and instantiating the dentry, and validating the whole group+default groups hierarchy in a second pass by clearing CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING. mkdir(), symlink(), lookup(), and dir_open() simply return -ENOENT if called in (or linking to) a directory tagged with CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING. This does not prevent userspace from calling stat() successfuly on such directories, but this prevents userspace from adding (children to | symlinking from/to | read/write attributes of | listing the contents of) not validated items. In other words, userspace will not interact with the subsystem on a new item until the new item creation completes correctly. It was first proposed to re-use CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR instead of a new flag CONFIGFS_USET_CREATING, but this generated conflicts when checking the target of a new symlink: a valid target directory in the middle of attaching a new user-created child item could be wrongly detected as being attached. 2/ is fixed by next commit. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* [PATCH] configfs: Fix failing symlink() making rmdir() failLouis Rilling2008-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On a similar pattern as mkdir() vs rmdir(), a failing symlink() may make rmdir() fail for the symlink's parent and the symlink's target as well. failing symlink() making target's rmdir() fail: process 1: process 2: symlink("A/S" -> "B") allow_link() create_link() attach to "B" links list rmdir("B") detach_prep("B") error because of new link configfs_create_link("A", "S") error (eg -ENOMEM) failing symlink() making parent's rmdir() fail: process 1: process 2: symlink("A/D/S" -> "B") allow_link() create_link() attach to "B" links list configfs_create_link("A/D", "S") make_dirent("A/D", "S") rmdir("A") detach_prep("A") detach_prep("A/D") error because of "S" create("S") error (eg -ENOMEM) We cannot use the same solution as for mkdir() vs rmdir(), since rmdir() on the target cannot wait on the i_mutex of the new symlink's parent without risking a deadlock (with other symlink() or sys_rename()). Instead we define a global mutex protecting all configfs symlinks attachment, so that rmdir() can avoid the races above. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() failLouis Rilling2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When fixing the rename() vs rmdir() deadlock, we stopped locking default groups' inodes in configfs_detach_prep(), letting racing mkdir() in default groups proceed concurrently. This enables races like below happen, which leads to a failing mkdir() making rmdir() fail, despite the group to remove having no user-created directory under it in the end. process A: process B: /* PWD=A/B */ mkdir("C") make_item("C") attach_group("C") rmdir("A") detach_prep("A") detach_prep("B") error because of "C" return -ENOTEMPTY attach_group("C/D") error (eg -ENOMEM) return -ENOMEM This patch prevents such scenarii by making rmdir() wait as long as detach_prep() fails because a racing mkdir() is in the middle of attach_group(). To achieve this, mkdir() sets a flag CONFIGFS_USET_IN_MKDIR in parent's configfs_dirent before calling attach_group(), and clears the flag once attach_group() is done. detach_prep() fails with -EAGAIN whenever the flag is hit and returns the guilty inode's mutex so that rmdir() can wait on it. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lockLouis Rilling2008-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces configfs_dirent_lock spinlock to protect configfs_dirent traversals against linkage mutations (add/del/move). This will allow configfs_detach_prep() to avoid locking i_mutexes. Locking rules for configfs_dirent linkage mutations are the same plus the requirement of taking configfs_dirent_lock. For configfs_dirent walking, one can either take appropriate i_mutex as before, or take configfs_dirent_lock. The spinlock could actually be a mutex, but the critical sections are either O(1) or should not be too long (default groups walking in last patch). ChangeLog: - Clarify the comment on configfs_dirent_lock usage - Move sd->s_element init before linking the new dirent - In lseek(), do not release configfs_dirent_lock before the dirent is relinked. Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
* mm: bdi init hooksPeter Zijlstra2007-10-17
| | | | | | | | | provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks [akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* configfs: config item dependancies.Joel Becker2007-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes other drivers depend on particular configfs items. For example, ocfs2 mounts depend on a heartbeat region item. If that region item is removed with rmdir(2), the ocfs2 mount must BUG or go readonly. Not happy. This provides two additional API calls: configfs_depend_item() and configfs_undepend_item(). A client driver can call configfs_depend_item() on an existing item to tell configfs that it is depended on. configfs will then return -EBUSY from rmdir(2) for that item. When the item is no longer depended on, the client driver calls configfs_undepend_item() on it. These API cannot be called underneath any configfs callbacks, as they will conflict. They can block and allocate. A client driver probably shouldn't calling them of its own gumption. Rather it should be providing an API that external subsystems call. How does this work? Imagine the ocfs2 mount process. When it mounts, it asks for a heart region item. This is done via a call into the heartbeat code. Inside the heartbeat code, the region item is looked up. Here, the heartbeat code calls configfs_depend_item(). If it succeeds, then heartbeat knows the region is safe to give to ocfs2. If it fails, it was being torn down anyway, and heartbeat can gracefully pass up an error. [ Fixed some bad whitespace in configfs.txt. --Mark ] Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1Arjan van de Ven2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | 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 <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter2006-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ constArjan van de Ven2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/ const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus cache clean) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* configfs: Add permission and ownership to configfs objects.Joel Becker2006-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and permissions based on a umask of 022. Add ->setattr() to allow chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the items and attributes. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystemJoel Becker2006-01-03
Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration. The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster configuration information into kernel. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>