We get this on 32 builds:
fs/built-in.o: In function `extent_fiemap':
(.text+0x1019f2): undefined reference to `__ucmpdi2'
Happens because of a switch statement with a 64 bit argument.
Convert this to an if statement to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
btrfs_new_inode doesn't call iput to free the inode
when it fails.
Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Need to check kthread_should_stop after schedule_timeout() before calling
schedule(). This causes threads to sleep with potentially no one to wake them
up causing mount(2) to hang in btrfs_stop_workers waiting for threads to stop.
Signed-off-by: Amit Gud <gud@ksu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The 'flushoncommit' mount option forces any data dirtied by a write in a
prior transaction to commit as part of the current commit. This makes
the committed state a fully consistent view of the file system from the
application's perspective (i.e., it includes all completed file system
operations). This was previously the behavior only when a snapshot is
created.
This is used by Ceph to ensure that completed writes make it to the
platter along with the metadata operations they are bound to (by
BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_{START,END}).
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Add a 'notreelog' mount option to disable the tree log (used by fsync,
O_SYNC writes). This is much slower, but the tree logging produces
inconsistent views into the FS for ceph.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
btrfs options can change at times other than mount, yet /proc/mounts shows the
options string used when the fs was mounted (an example would be when btrfs
determines that barriers aren't useful and turns them off.) This patch
instead outputs the actual options in use by btrfs.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Because btrfs is copy-on-write, we end up picking new locations for
blocks very often. This makes it fairly difficult to maintain perfect
read patterns over time, but we can at least do some optimizations
for writes.
This is done today by remembering the last place we allocated and
trying to find a free space hole big enough to hold more than just one
allocation. The end result is that we tend to write sequentially to
the drive.
This happens all the time for metadata and it happens for data
when mounted -o ssd. But, the way we record it is fairly racey
and it tends to fragment the free space over time because we are trying
to allocate fairly large areas at once.
This commit gets rid of the races by adding a free space cluster object
with dedicated locking to make sure that only one process at a time
is out replacing the cluster.
The free space fragmentation is somewhat solved by allowing a cluster
to be comprised of smaller free space extents. This part definitely
adds some CPU time to the cluster allocations, but it allows the allocator
to consume the small holes left behind by cow.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
btrfs_next_leaf was using blocking locks when it could have been using
faster spinning ones instead. This adds a few extra checks around
the pieces that block and switches over to spinning locks.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This patch removes the pinned_mutex. The extent io map has an internal tree
lock that protects the tree itself, and since we only copy the extent io map
when we are committing the transaction we don't need it there. We also don't
need it when caching the block group since searching through the tree is also
protected by the internal map spin lock.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
This patch removes the block group alloc mutex used to protect the free space
tree for allocations and replaces it with a spin lock which is used only to
protect the free space rb tree. This means we only take the lock when we are
directly manipulating the tree, which makes us a touch faster with
multi-threaded workloads.
This patch also gets rid of btrfs_find_free_space and replaces it with
btrfs_find_space_for_alloc, which takes the number of bytes you want to
allocate, and empty_size, which is used to indicate how much free space should
be at the end of the allocation.
It will return an offset for the allocator to use. If we don't end up using it
we _must_ call btrfs_add_free_space to put it back. This is the tradeoff to
kill the alloc_mutex, since we need to make sure nobody else comes along and
takes our space.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
I've replaced the strange looping constructs with a list_for_each_entry on
space_info->block_groups. If we have a hint we just jump into the loop with
the block group and start looking for space. If we don't find anything we
start at the beginning and start looking. We never come out of the loop with a
ref on the block_group _unless_ we found space to use, then we drop it after we
set the trans block_group.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the free space cache code a bit. It better documents the
idiosyncrasies of tree_search_offset and makes the code make a bit more sense.
I took out the info allocation at the start of __btrfs_add_free_space and put it
where it makes more sense. This was left over cruft from when alloc_mutex
existed. Also all of the re-searches we do to make sure we inserted properly.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Btrfs pages being written get set to writeback, and then may go through
a number of steps before they hit the block layer. This includes compression,
checksumming and async bio submission.
The end result is that someone who writes a page and then does
wait_on_page_writeback is likely to unplug the queue before the bio they
cared about got there.
We could fix this by marking bios sync, or by doing more frequent unplugs,
but this commit just changes the async bio submission code to unplug
after it has processed all the bios for a device. The async bio submission
does a fair job of collection bios, so this shouldn't be a huge problem
for reducing merging at the elevator.
For streaming O_DIRECT writes on a 5 drive array, it boosts performance
from 386MB/s to 460MB/s.
Thanks to Hisashi Hifumi for helping with this work.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Btrfs uses async helper threads to submit write bios so the checksumming
helper threads don't block on the disk.
The submit bio threads may process bios for more than one block device,
so when they find one device congested they try to move on to other
devices instead of blocking in get_request_wait for one device.
This does a pretty good job of keeping multiple devices busy, but the
congested flag has a number of problems. A congested device may still
give you a request, and other procs that aren't backing off the congested
device may starve you out.
This commit uses the io_context stored in current to decide if our process
has been made a batching process by the block layer. If so, it keeps
sending IO down for at least one batch. This helps make sure we do
a good amount of work each time we visit a bdev, and avoids large IO
stalls in multi-device workloads.
It's also very ugly. A better solution is in the works with Jens Axboe.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
COW means we cycle though blocks fairly quickly, and once we
free an extent on disk, it doesn't make much sense to keep the pages around.
This commit tries to immediately free the page when we free the extent,
which lowers our memory footprint significantly.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Renames and truncates are both common ways to replace old data with new
data. The filesystem can make an effort to make sure the new data is
on disk before actually replacing the old data.
This is especially important for rename, which many application use as
though it were atomic for both the data and the metadata involved. The
current btrfs code will happily replace a file that is fully on disk
with one that was just created and still has pending IO.
If we crash after transaction commit but before the IO is done, we'll end
up replacing a good file with a zero length file. The solution used
here is to create a list of inodes that need special ordering and force
them to disk before the commit is done. This is similar to the
ext3 style data=ordering, except it is only done on selected files.
Btrfs is able to get away with this because it does not wait on commits
very often, even for fsync (which use a sub-commit).
For renames, we order the file when it wasn't already
on disk and when it is replacing an existing file. Larger files
are sent to filemap_flush right away (before the transaction handle is
opened).
For truncates, we order if the file goes from non-zero size down to
zero size. This is a little different, because at the time of the
truncate the file has no dirty bytes to order. But, we flag the inode
so that it is added to the ordered list on close (via release method). We
also immediately add it to the ordered list of the current transaction
so that we can try to flush down any writes the application sneaks in
before commit.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
btrfs_update_delayed_ref is optimized to add and remove different
references in one pass through the delayed ref tree. It is a zero
sum on the total number of refs on a given extent.
But, the code was recording an extra ref in the head node. This
never made it down to the disk but was used when deciding if it was
safe to free the extent while dropping snapshots.
The fix used here is to make sure the ref_mod count is unchanged
on the head ref when btrfs_update_delayed_ref is called.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The fsync log has code to make sure all of the parents of a file are in the
log along with the file. It uses a minimal log of the parent directory
inodes, just enough to get the parent directory on disk.
If the transaction that originally created a file is fully on disk,
and the file hasn't been renamed or linked into other directories, we
can safely skip the parent directory walk. We know the file is on disk
somewhere and we can go ahead and just log that single file.
This is more important now because unrelated unlinks in the parent directory
might make us force a commit if we try to log the parent.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The tree logging code allows individual files or directories to be logged
without including operations on other files and directories in the FS.
It tries to commit the minimal set of changes to disk in order to
fsync the single file or directory that was sent to fsync or O_SYNC.
The tree logging code was allowing files and directories to be unlinked
if they were part of a rename operation where only one directory
in the rename was in the fsync log. This patch adds a few new rules
to the tree logging.
1) on rename or unlink, if the inode being unlinked isn't in the fsync
log, we must force a full commit before doing an fsync of the directory
where the unlink was done. The commit isn't done during the unlink,
but it is forced the next time we try to log the parent directory.
Solution: record transid of last unlink/rename per directory when the
directory wasn't already logged. For renames this is only done when
renaming to a different directory.
mkdir foo/some_dir
normal commit
rename foo/some_dir foo2/some_dir
mkdir foo/some_dir
fsync foo/some_dir/some_file
The fsync above will unlink the original some_dir without recording
it in its new location (foo2). After a crash, some_dir will be gone
unless the fsync of some_file forces a full commit
2) we must log any new names for any file or dir that is in the fsync
log. This way we make sure not to lose files that are unlinked during
the same transaction.
2a) we must log any new names for any file or dir during rename
when the directory they are being removed from was logged.
2a is actually the more important variant. Without the extra logging
a crash might unlink the old name without recreating the new one
3) after a crash, we must go through any directories with a link count
of zero and redo the rm -rf
mkdir f1/foo
normal commit
rm -rf f1/foo
fsync(f1)
The directory f1 was fully removed from the FS, but fsync was never
called on f1, only its parent dir. After a crash the rm -rf must
be replayed. This must be able to recurse down the entire
directory tree. The inode link count fixup code takes care of the
ugly details.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
During log replay, inodes are copied from the log to the main filesystem
btrees. Sometimes they have a zero link count in the log but they actually
gain links during the replay or have some in the main btree.
This patch updates the link count to be at least one after copying the
inode out of the log. This makes sure the inode is deleted during an
iput while the rest of the replay code is still working on it.
The log replay has fixup code to make sure that link counts are correct
at the end of the replay, so we could use any non-zero number here and
it would work fine.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The delayed reference mechanism is responsible for all updates to the
extent allocation trees, including those updates created while processing
the delayed references.
This commit tries to limit the amount of work that gets created during
the final run of delayed refs before a commit. It avoids cowing new blocks
unless it is required to finish the commit, and so it avoids new allocations
that were not really required.
The goal is to avoid infinite loops where we are always making more work
on the final run of delayed refs. Over the long term we'll make a
special log for the last delayed ref updates as well.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This reads in blocks in the checksum btree before starting the
transaction in btrfs_finish_ordered_io. It makes it much more likely
we'll be able to do operations inside the transaction without
needing any btree reads, which limits transaction latencies overall.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
btrfs_mark_buffer dirty would set dirty bits in the extent_io tree
for the buffers it was dirtying. This may require a kmalloc and it
was not atomic. So, anyone who called btrfs_mark_buffer_dirty had to
set any btree locks they were holding to blocking first.
This commit changes dirty tracking for extent buffers to just use a flag
in the extent buffer. Now that we have one and only one extent buffer
per page, this can be safely done without losing dirty bits along the way.
This also introduces a path->leave_spinning flag that callers of
btrfs_search_slot can use to indicate they will properly deal with a
path returned where all the locks are spinning instead of blocking.
Many of the btree search callers now expect spinning paths,
resulting in better btree concurrency overall.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Commits are fairly expensive, and so btrfs has code to sit around for a while
during the commit and let new writers come in.
But, while we're sitting there, new delayed refs might be added, and those
can be expensive to process as well. Unless the transaction is very very
young, it makes sense to go ahead and let the commit finish without hanging
around.
The commit grow loop isn't as important as it used to be, the fsync logging
code handles most performance critical syncs now.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
This reduces contention on the extent buffer spin locks by testing for a
blocking lock before trying to take the spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The fs/btrfs/inode.c code to run delayed allocation during writout
needed some stack usage optimization. This is the first pass, it does
the check for compression earlier on, which allows us to do the common
(no compression) case higher up in the call chain.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To avoid deadlocks and reduce latencies during some critical operations, some
transaction writers are allowed to jump into the running transaction and make
it run a little longer, while others sit around and wait for the commit to
finish.
This is a bit unfair, especially when the callers that jump in do a bunch
of IO that makes all the others procs on the box wait. This commit
reduces the stalls this produces by pre-reading file extent pointers
during btrfs_finish_ordered_io before the transaction is joined.
It also tunes the drop_snapshot code to politely wait for transactions
that have started writing out their delayed refs to finish. This avoids
new delayed refs being flooded into the queue while we're trying to
close off the transaction.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The delayed reference queue maintains pending operations that need to
be done to the extent allocation tree. These are processed by
finding records in the tree that are not currently being processed one at
a time.
This is slow because it uses lots of time searching through the rbtree
and because it creates lock contention on the extent allocation tree
when lots of different procs are running delayed refs at the same time.
This commit changes things to grab a cluster of refs for processing,
using a cursor into the rbtree as the starting point of the next search.
This way we walk smoothly through the rbtree.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
When extents are freed, it is likely that we've removed the last
delayed reference update for the extent. This checks the delayed
ref tree when things are freed, and if no ref updates area left it
immediately processes the delayed ref.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Many of the tree balancing functions follow the same pattern.
1) cow a block
2) do something to the result
This commit breaks them up into two functions so the variables and
code required for part two don't suck down stack during part one.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The extent allocation tree maintains a reference count and full
back reference information for every extent allocated in the
filesystem. For subvolume and snapshot trees, every time
a block goes through COW, the new copy of the block adds a reference
on every block it points to.
If a btree node points to 150 leaves, then the COW code needs to go
and add backrefs on 150 different extents, which might be spread all
over the extent allocation tree.
These updates currently happen during btrfs_cow_block, and most COWs
happen during btrfs_search_slot. btrfs_search_slot has locks held
on both the parent and the node we are COWing, and so we really want
to avoid IO during the COW if we can.
This commit adds an rbtree of pending reference count updates and extent
allocations. The tree is ordered by byte number of the extent and byte number
of the parent for the back reference. The tree allows us to:
1) Modify back references in something close to disk order, reducing seeks
2) Significantly reduce the number of modifications made as block pointers
are balanced around
3) Do all of the extent insertion and back reference modifications outside
of the performance critical btrfs_search_slot code.
#3 has the added benefit of greatly reducing the btrfs stack footprint.
The extent allocation tree modifications are done without the deep
(and somewhat recursive) call chains used in the past.
These delayed back reference updates must be done before the transaction
commits, and so the rbtree is tied to the transaction. Throttling is
implemented to help keep the queue of backrefs at a reasonable size.
Since there was a similar mechanism in place for the extent tree
extents, that is removed and replaced by the delayed reference tree.
Yan Zheng <yan.zheng@oracle.com> helped review and fixup this code.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
In order to avoid doing expensive extent management with tree locks held,
btrfs_search_slot will preallocate tree blocks for use by COW without
any tree locks held.
A later commit moves all of the extent allocation work for COW into
a delayed update mechanism, and this preallocation will no longer be
required.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
With a sufficiently new compiler and binutils, code which wasn't
previously generating .eh_frame sections has begun to. Certain
architectures (powerpc, in this case) may generate unexpected relocation
formats in response to this, preventing modules from loading.
While the new relocation types should probably be handled, revert to the
previous behaviour with regards to generation of .eh_frame sections.
(This was reported against Fedora, which appears to be the only distro
doing any building against gcc-4.4 at present: RH bz#486545.)
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert the change to the orphan dates of Windows 95, DOS, compression.
Add a new orphan date for OS/2.
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits)
ucc_geth: Fix oops when using fixed-link support
dm9000: locking bugfix
net: update dnet.c for bus_id removal
dnet: DNET should depend on HAS_IOMEM
dca: add missing copyright/license headers
nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
sungem: missing net_device_ops
be2net: fix to restore vlan ids into BE2 during a IF DOWN->UP cycle
be2net: replenish when posting to rx-queue is starved in out of mem conditions
bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open
sh_eth: Fix mistake of the address of SH7763
sh_eth: Change handling of IRQ
netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb
net: fix sctp breakage
ipv6: fix display of local and remote sit endpoints
net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug
virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection
...
This patch fixes bug #12208:
Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12208
Subject : uml is very slow on 2.6.28 host
This turned out to be not a scheduler regression, but an already
existing problem in ptrace being triggered by subtle scheduler
changes.
The problem is this:
- task A is ptracing task B
- task B stops on a trace event
- task A is woken up and preempts task B
- task A calls ptrace on task B, which does ptrace_check_attach()
- this calls wait_task_inactive(), which sees that task B is still on the runq
- task A goes to sleep for a jiffy
- ...
Since UML does lots of the above sequences, those jiffies quickly add
up to make it slow as hell.
This patch solves this by not rescheduling in read_unlock() after
ptrace_stop() has woken up the tracer.
Thanks to Oleg Nesterov and Ingo Molnar for the feedback.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Grant picked up the wrong version of "Respect _PAGE_COHERENT on classic
ppc32 SW" (commit a4bd6a93c3)
It was missing the code to actually deal with the fixup of
_PAGE_COHERENT based on the CPU feature.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
commit b1c4a9dddf ("ucc_geth: Change
uec phy id to the same format as gianfar's") introduced a regression
in the ucc_geth driver that causes this oops when fixed-link is used:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0151270
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
TMCUTU
NIP: c0151270 LR: c0151270 CTR: c0017760
REGS: cf81fa60 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.29-rc8)
MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 24024042 XER: 20000000
DAR: 00000000, DSISR: 20000000
TASK = cf81cba0[1] 'swapper' THREAD: cf81e000
GPR00: c0151270 cf81fb10 cf81cba0 00000000 c0272e20 c025f354 00001e80
cf86b08c
GPR08: d1068200 cffffb74 06000000 d106c200 42024042 10085148 0fffd000
0ffc81a0
GPR16: 00000001 00000001 00000000 007ffeb0 00000000 0000c000 cf83f36c
cf83f000
GPR24: 00000030 cf83f360 cf81fb20 00000000 d106c200 20000000 00001e80
cf83f360
NIP [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc
LR [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc
Call Trace:
[cf81fb10] [c0151270] ucc_geth_open+0x330/0x1efc (unreliable)
[cf81fba0] [c0187638] dev_open+0xbc/0x12c
[cf81fbc0] [c0187e38] dev_change_flags+0x8c/0x1b0
This patch fixes the issue by removing offending (and somewhat
duplicate) code from init_phy() routine, and changes _probe()
function to use uec_mdio_bus_name().
Also, since we fully construct phy_bus_id in the _probe() routine,
we no longer need ->phy_address and ->mdio_bus fields in
ucc_geth_info structure.
I wish the patch would be a bit shorter, but it seems like the only
way to fix the issue in a sane way. Luckily, the patch has been
tested with real PHYs and fixed-link, so no further regressions
expected.
Reported-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Tested-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This fixes a locking bug in the dm9000 driver. It calls
request_irq() without setting IRQF_DISABLED ... which is
correct for handlers that support IRQ sharing, since that
behavior is not guaranteed for shared IRQs. However, its
IRQ handler then wrongly assumes that IRQs are blocked.
So the fix just uses the right spinlock primitives in the
IRQ handler.
NOTE: this is a classic example of the type of bug which
lockdep currently masks by forcibly setting IRQF_DISABLED
on IRQ handlers that did not request that flag.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'fix-includes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of siginfo.h
m68k: use the MMU version of unistd.h for all m68k platforms
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of signal.h
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of ptrace.h
m68k: use MMU version of setup.h for both MMU and non-MMU
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of sigcontext.h
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of swab.h
m68k: merge the non-MMU and MMU versions of param.h
Update all previous incarnations of my email address to the correct one.
Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If ecryptfs_encrypted_view or ecryptfs_xattr_metadata were being
specified as mount options, a NULL pointer dereference of crypt_stat
was possible during lookup.
This patch moves the crypt_stat assignment into
ecryptfs_lookup_and_interpose_lower(), ensuring that crypt_stat
will not be NULL before we attempt to dereference it.
Thanks to Dan Carpenter and his static analysis tool, smatch, for
finding this bug.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When allocating the memory used to store the eCryptfs header contents, a
single, zeroed page was being allocated with get_zeroed_page().
However, the size of an eCryptfs header is either PAGE_CACHE_SIZE or
ECRYPTFS_MINIMUM_HEADER_EXTENT_SIZE (8192), whichever is larger, and is
stored in the file's private_data->crypt_stat->num_header_bytes_at_front
field.
ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_contents() was using
num_header_bytes_at_front to decide how many bytes should be written to
the lower filesystem for the file header. Unfortunately, at least 8K
was being written from the page, despite the chance of the single,
zeroed page being smaller than 8K. This resulted in random areas of
kernel memory being written between the 0x1000 and 0x1FFF bytes offsets
in the eCryptfs file headers if PAGE_SIZE was 4K.
This patch allocates a variable number of pages, calculated with
num_header_bytes_at_front, and passes the number of allocated pages
along to ecryptfs_write_metadata_to_contents().
Thanks to Florian Streibelt for reporting the data leak and working with
me to find the problem. 2.6.28 is the only kernel release with this
vulnerability. Corresponds to CVE-2009-0787
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Florian Streibelt <florian@f-streibelt.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
