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* [PATCH] fsnotify_name/inoderemoveJohn McCutchan2005-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch below unhooks fsnotify from vfs_unlink & vfs_rmdir. It introduces two new fsnotify calls, that are hooked in at the dcache level. This not only more closely matches how the VFS layer works, it also avoids the problem with locking and inode lifetimes. The two functions are - fsnotify_nameremove -- called when a directory entry is going away. It notifies the PARENT of the deletion. This is called from d_delete(). - inoderemove -- called when the files inode itself is going away. It notifies the inode that is being deleted. This is called from dentry_iput(). Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] namespace.c: fix bind mount from foreign namespaceMiklos Szeredi2005-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm resending this patch, because I still believe it's the correct fix. Tested before/after applying the patch with a test application available from: http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/nstest.c Bind mount from a foreign namespace results in an un-removable mount. The reason is that mnt->mnt_namespace is copied from the old mount in clone_mnt(). Because of this check_mnt() in sys_umount() will fail. The solution is to set mnt->mnt_namespace to current->namespace in clone_mnt(). clone_mnt() is either called from do_loopback() or copy_tree(). copy_tree() is called from do_loopback() or copy_namespace(). When called (directly or indirectly) from do_loopback(), always current->namspace is being modified: check_mnt(nd->mnt). So setting mnt->mnt_namespace to current->namspace is the right thing to do. When called from copy_namespace(), the setting of mnt_namespace is irrelevant, since mnt_namespace is reset later in that function for all copied mounts. Jamie said: This patch is correct. The old code was buggy for more fundamental and serious reason: it broke the invariant that a tree of vfsmnts all have the same value of mnt_namespace (and the same for the mnt_list list). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Acked-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] __bio_clone() dead commentAndrew Morton2005-08-07
| | | | | | | Remove a very wrong comment. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Check input buffer size in zisofsLinus Torvalds2005-08-06
| | | | | | | This uses the new deflateBound() thing to sanity-check the input to the zlib decompressor before we even bother to start reading in the blocks. Problem noted by Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>
* [PATCH] Clean up inotify delete race fixJohn McCutchan2005-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | This avoids the whole #ifdef mess by just getting a copy of dentry->d_inode before d_delete is called - that makes the codepaths the same for the INOTIFY/DNOTIFY cases as for the regular no-notify case. I've been running this under a Gnome session for the last 10 minutes. Inotify is being used extensively. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotify delete race fixJohn McCutchan2005-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | The included patch fixes a problem where a inotify client would receive a delete event before the file was actually deleted. The bug affects both dnotify & inotify. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotify: update help textRobert Love2005-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | The inotify help text still refers to the character device. Update it. Fixes kernel bug #4993. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hfs: don't reference missing pageRoman Zippel2005-08-02
| | | | | | | | If there was a read error, the bnode might miss some pages, so skip them. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hfs: don't dirty unchanged inodeRoman Zippel2005-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | If inode size hasn't changed, don't do anything further in truncate, which also prevents a dirty inode, what might upset some readonly devices quite badly. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotify: fix race between the kernel and user spaceJohn McCutchan2005-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When you rm a watch, an IN_IGNORED event is sent down the event queue with the watch descriptor that you just rm'd. If you then add a watch you could get the ignored watch's wd and if you haven't read the entire event queue, user space will think that it's newly created watch was just ignored. To avoid this problem we just use idr_get_new_above instead of idr_get_new. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotify: fix file deletion by rename detectionJohn McCutchan2005-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | When a file is moved over an existing file that you are watching, inotify won't send you a DELETE_SELF event and it won't unref the inode until the inotify instance is closed by the application. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_setattrManeesh Soni2005-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | o sysfs_dirent's s_mode field should also be updated in sysfs_setattr(), else there could be inconsistency in the two fields. s_mode is used while ->readdir so as not to bring in the inode to cache. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_chmod_fileManeesh Soni2005-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | o sysfs_chmod_file() must update the new iattr field in sysfs_dirent else the mode change will not be persistent in case of inode evacuation from cache. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: implement hostfs syncingPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-07-29
| | | | | | | | | Actually implement the hostfs "sync" method. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] bio_clone fixAndrew Morton2005-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix bug introduced in 2.6.11-rc2: when we clone a BIO we need to copy over the current index into it as well. It corrupts data with some MD setups. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4946 Huuuuuuuuge thanks to Matthew Stapleton <matthew4196@gmail.com> for doggedly chasing this one down. Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <dm-devel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge head 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-07-27
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| * JFS: Fix i_blocks accounting when allocation failsDave Kleikamp2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A failure in dbAlloc caused a directory's i_blocks to be incorrectly incremented, causing jfs_fsck to find the inode to be corrupt. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
| * JFS: Don't set log_SYNCBARRIER when log->active == 0Dave Kleikamp2005-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a metadata page is kept active, it is possible that the sync barrier logic continues to trigger, even if all active transactions have been phyically written to the journal. This can cause a hang, since the completion of the journal I/O is what unsets the sync barrier flag to allow new transactions to be created. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
| * JFS: Fix typo in last patchDave Kleikamp2005-07-22
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
| * Merge with /home/shaggy/git/linus-clean/Dave Kleikamp2005-07-19
| |\ | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
| * | JFS: fsync wrong behavior when I/O failure occursQu Fuping2005-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is half of a patch that Qu Fuping submitted in April. The first part was applied to fs/mpage.c in 2.6.12-rc4. jfs_fsync should return error, but it doesn't wait for the metadata page to be uptodate, e.g.: jfs_fsync->jfs_commit_inode->txCommit->diWrite->read_metapage-> __get_metapage->read_cache_page reads a page from disk. Because read is async, when read_cache_page: err = filler(data, page), filler will not return error, it just submits I/O request and returns. So, page is not uptodate. Checking only if(IS_ERROR(mp->page)) is not enough, we should add "|| !PageUptodate(mp->page)" Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
| * | JFS: Remove assert statement in dbJoin & return -EIO insteadDave Kleikamp2005-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
| * | JFS: Remove bogus WARN_ON statement and some dead codeDave Kleikamp2005-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
* | | [PATCH] clean up inline static vs static inlineJesper Juhl2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `gcc -W' likes to complain if the static keyword is not at the beginning of the declaration. This patch fixes all remaining occurrences of "inline static" up with "static inline" in the entire kernel tree (140 occurrences in 47 files). While making this change I came across a few lines with trailing whitespace that I also fixed up, I have also added or removed a blank line or two here and there, but there are no functional changes in the patch. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_stringOlaf Hering2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | turn many #if $undefined_string into #ifdef $undefined_string to fix some warnings after -Wno-def was added to global CFLAGS Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] reiserfs doesn't use mbcacheAndreas Gruenbacher2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | reiserfs doesn't use the mbcache, so this can go. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] mbcache: Remove unused mb_cache_shrink parameterAndreas Gruenbacher2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cache parameter to mb_cache_shrink isn't used. We may as well remove it. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] stale POSIX lock handlingPeter Staubach2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I believe that there is a problem with the handling of POSIX locks, which the attached patch should address. The problem appears to be a race between fcntl(2) and close(2). A multithreaded application could close a file descriptor at the same time as it is trying to acquire a lock using the same file descriptor. I would suggest that that multithreaded application is not providing the proper synchronization for itself, but the OS should still behave correctly. SUS3 (Single UNIX Specification Version 3, read: POSIX) indicates that when a file descriptor is closed, that all POSIX locks on the file, owned by the process which closed the file descriptor, should be released. The trick here is when those locks are released. The current code releases all locks which exist when close is processing, but any locks in progress are handled when the last reference to the open file is released. There are three cases to consider. One is the simple case, a multithreaded (mt) process has a file open and races to close it and acquire a lock on it. In this case, the close will release one reference to the open file and when the fcntl is done, it will release the other reference. For this situation, no locks should exist on the file when both the close and fcntl operations are done. The current system will handle this case because the last reference to the open file is being released. The second case is when the mt process has dup(2)'d the file descriptor. The close will release one reference to the file and the fcntl, when done, will release another, but there will still be at least one more reference to the open file. One could argue that the existence of a lock on the file after the close has completed is okay, because it was acquired after the close operation and there is still a way for the application to release the lock on the file, using an existing file descriptor. The third case is when the mt process has forked, after opening the file and either before or after becoming an mt process. In this case, each process would hold a reference to the open file. For each process, this degenerates to first case above. However, the lock continues to exist until both processes have released their references to the open file. This lock could block other lock requests. The changes to release the lock when the last reference to the open file aren't quite right because they would allow the lock to exist as long as there was a reference to the open file. This is too long. The new proposed solution is to add support in the fcntl code path to detect a race with close and then to release the lock which was just acquired when such as race is detected. This causes locks to be released in a timely fashion and for the system to conform to the POSIX semantic specification. This was tested by instrumenting a kernel to detect the handling locks and then running a program which generates case #3 above. A dangling lock could be reliably generated. When the changes to detect the close/fcntl race were added, a dangling lock could no longer be generated. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] fix xip sparse file handling in ext2Carsten Otte2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Oliver Paukstadt from our test department is testing the xip patches in Linus' git-tree. He found a problem that shows when reading a file that contains sparse blocks (holes) on a -o xip mounted ext2 filesystem: the BUG_ON() in fs/ext2/xip.c:40 triggers where it should not. The problem was introduced by a cleanup in my previous patch, this patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] autofs4: fix infamous "Busy inodes after umount ..." messageIan Kent2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the automount daemon receives a signal which causes it to sumarily terminate the autofs4 module leaks dentries. The same problem exists with detached mount requests without the warning. This patch cleans these dentries at umount. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] ext3: drop quota references before releasing inodeJan Kara2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We must drop references to quota structures before releasing the inode. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] ext2: drop quota reference before releasing inodeJan Kara2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We must drop references to quota structures before releasing the inode. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] reiserfs: fix deadlock in inode creation failure path w/ default ACLJeff Mahoney2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | reiserfs_new_inode() can call iput() with the xattr lock held. This will cause a deadlock to occur when reiserfs_delete_xattrs() is called to clean up. The following patch releases the lock and reacquires it after the iput. This is safe because interaction with xattrs is complete, and the relock is just to balance out the release in the caller. The locking needs some reworking to be more sane, but that's more intrusive and I was just looking to fix this bug. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] Fix missing refrigerator invocation in jffs2Nigel Cunningham2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's a patch to fix a missing refrigerator call in jffs2. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] inotify: fix oops fixAndrew Morton2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] inotify: check retval in initRobert Love2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Check for (unlikely) errors in the filesystem initialization stuff in our module_init() function. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] inotify: change default limitsRobert Love2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change default inotify limits: Maximum instances per user to 128 and maximum events per queue to 16k. The max instances used to be 128; the change to 8 was a mistake. Memory consumption is fine. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] inotify: exit path cleanupsRobert Love2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Handle error out paths better. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] inotify: oops fixRobert Love2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bug fix: Ensure that the fd passed to inotify_add_watch() and inotify_rm_watch() belongs to inotify. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] inotify: use fget_lightRobert Love2005-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As an optimization, use fget_light() and fput_light() where possible. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] inotify: misc. cleanupRobert Love2005-07-26
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Miscellaneous invariant clean up, comment fixes, and so on. Trivial stuff. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-07-16
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| * \ \ Automatic merge with /usr/src/ntfs-2.6.git.Anton Altaparmakov2005-07-04
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| * \ \ \ \ Automatic merge with /usr/src/ntfs-2.6.git.Anton Altaparmakov2005-06-26
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| * | | | | | NTFS: Fix a nasty deadlock that appeared in recent kernels.Anton Altaparmakov2005-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The situation: VFS inode X on a mounted ntfs volume is dirty. For same inode X, the ntfs_inode is dirty and thus corresponding on-disk inode, i.e. mft record, which is in a dirty PAGE_CACHE_PAGE belonging to the table of inodes, i.e. $MFT, inode 0. What happens: Process 1: sys_sync()/umount()/whatever... calls __sync_single_inode() for $MFT -> do_writepages() -> write_page for the dirty page containing the on-disk inode X, the page is now locked -> ntfs_write_mst_block() which clears PageUptodate() on the page to prevent anyone else getting hold of it whilst it does the write out. This is necessary as the on-disk inode needs "fixups" applied before the write to disk which are removed again after the write and PageUptodate is then set again. It then analyses the page looking for dirty on-disk inodes and when it finds one it calls ntfs_may_write_mft_record() to see if it is safe to write this on-disk inode. This then calls ilookup5() to check if the corresponding VFS inode is in icache(). This in turn calls ifind() which waits on the inode lock via wait_on_inode whilst holding the global inode_lock. Process 2: pdflush results in a call to __sync_single_inode for the same VFS inode X on the ntfs volume. This locks the inode (I_LOCK) then calls write-inode -> ntfs_write_inode -> map_mft_record() -> read_cache_page() for the page (in page cache of table of inodes $MFT, inode 0) containing the on-disk inode. This page has PageUptodate() clear because of Process 1 (see above) so read_cache_page() blocks when it tries to take the page lock for the page so it can call ntfs_read_page(). Thus Process 1 is holding the page lock on the page containing the on-disk inode X and it is waiting on the inode X to be unlocked in ifind() so it can write the page out and then unlock the page. And Process 2 is holding the inode lock on inode X and is waiting for the page to be unlocked so it can call ntfs_readpage() or discover that Process 1 set PageUptodate() again and use the page. Thus we have a deadlock due to ifind() waiting on the inode lock. The solution: The fix is to use the newly introduced ilookup5_nowait() which does not wait on the inode's lock and hence avoids the deadlock. This is safe as we do not care about the VFS inode and only use the fact that it is in the VFS inode cache and the fact that the vfs and ntfs inodes are one struct in memory to find the ntfs inode in memory if present. Also, the ntfs inode has its own locking so it does not matter if the vfs inode is locked. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| * | | | | | NTFS: Prepare for 2.1.23 release: Update documentation and bump version.Anton Altaparmakov2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| * | | | | | NTFS: Change ntfs_map_runlist_nolock() to only decompress the mapping pairsAnton Altaparmakov2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | if the requested vcn is inside it. Otherwise we get into problems when we try to map an out of bounds vcn because we then try to map the already mapped runlist fragment which causes ntfs_mapping_pairs_decompress() to fail and return error. Update ntfs_attr_find_vcn_nolock() accordingly. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| * | | | | | NTFS: Add an extra parameter @last_vcn to ntfs_get_size_for_mapping_pairs()Anton Altaparmakov2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and ntfs_mapping_pairs_build() to allow the runlist encoding to be partial which is desirable when filling holes in sparse attributes. Update all callers. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
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