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Al Viro
bcda76524c Allow O_PATH for symlinks
At that point we can't do almost nothing with them.  They can be opened
with O_PATH, we can manipulate such descriptors with dup(), etc. and
we can see them in /proc/*/{fd,fdinfo}/*.

We can't (and won't be able to) follow /proc/*/fd/* symlinks for those;
there's simply not enough information for pathname resolution to go on
from such point - to resolve a symlink we need to know which directory
does it live in.

We will be able to do useful things with them after the next commit, though -
readlinkat() and fchownat() will be possible to use with dfd being an
O_PATH-opened symlink and empty relative pathname.  Combined with
open_by_handle() it'll give us a way to do realink-by-handle and
lchown-by-handle without messing with more redundant syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-15 02:21:45 -04:00
Al Viro
1abf0c718f New kind of open files - "location only".
New flag for open(2) - O_PATH.  Semantics:
	* pathname is resolved, but the file itself is _NOT_ opened
as far as filesystem is concerned.
	* almost all operations on the resulting descriptors shall
fail with -EBADF.  Exceptions are:
	1) operations on descriptors themselves (i.e.
		close(), dup(), dup2(), dup3(), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD),
		fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, ...), fcntl(fd, F_GETFD),
		fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, ...))
	2) fcntl(fd, F_GETFL), for a common non-destructive way to
		check if descriptor is open
	3) "dfd" arguments of ...at(2) syscalls, i.e. the starting
		points of pathname resolution
	* closing such descriptor does *NOT* affect dnotify or
posix locks.
	* permissions are checked as usual along the way to file;
no permission checks are applied to the file itself.  Of course,
giving such thing to syscall will result in permission checks (at
the moment it means checking that starting point of ....at() is
a directory and caller has exec permissions on it).

fget() and fget_light() return NULL on such descriptors; use of
fget_raw() and fget_raw_light() is needed to get them.  That protects
existing code from dealing with those things.

There are two things still missing (they come in the next commits):
one is handling of symlinks (right now we refuse to open them that
way; see the next commit for semantics related to those) and another
is descriptor passing via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-15 02:21:45 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aae8a97d3e fs: Don't allow to create hardlink for deleted file
Add inode->i_nlink == 0 check in VFS. Some of the file systems
do this internally. A followup patch will remove those instance.
This is needed to ensure that with link by handle we don't allow
to create hardlink of an unlinked file. The check also prevent a race
between unlink and link

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-15 02:21:44 -04:00
Al Viro
f52e0c1130 New AT_... flag: AT_EMPTY_PATH
For name_to_handle_at(2) we'll want both ...at()-style syscall that
would be usable for non-directory descriptors (with empty relative
pathname).  Introduce new flag (AT_EMPTY_PATH) to deal with that and
corresponding LOOKUP_EMPTY; teach user_path_at() and path_init() to
deal with the latter.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 19:12:20 -04:00
Al Viro
73d049a40f open-style analog of vfs_path_lookup()
new function: file_open_root(dentry, mnt, name, flags) opens the file
vfs_path_lookup would arrive to.

Note that name can be empty; in that case the usual requirement that
dentry should be a directory is lifted.

open-coded equivalents switched to it, may_open() got down exactly
one caller and became static.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:28 -04:00
Al Viro
5b6ca027d8 reduce vfs_path_lookup() to do_path_lookup()
New lookup flag: LOOKUP_ROOT.  nd->root is set (and held) by caller,
path_init() starts walking from that place and all pathname resolution
machinery never drops nd->root if that flag is set.  That turns
vfs_path_lookup() into a special case of do_path_lookup() *and*
gets us down to 3 callers of link_path_walk(), making it finally
feasible to rip the handling of trailing symlink out of link_path_walk().
That will not only simply the living hell out of it, but make life
much simpler for unionfs merge.  Trailing symlink handling will
become iterative, which is a good thing for stack footprint in
a lot of situations as well.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:27 -04:00
Al Viro
5a18fff209 untangle do_lookup()
That thing has devolved into rats nest of gotos; sane use of unlikely()
gets rid of that horror and gives much more readable structure:
	* make a fast attempt to find a dentry; false negatives are OK.
In RCU mode if everything went fine, we are done, otherwise just drop
out of RCU.  If we'd done (RCU) ->d_revalidate() and it had not refused
outright (i.e. didn't give us -ECHILD), remember its result.
	* now we are not in RCU mode and hopefully have a dentry.  If we
do not, lock parent, do full d_lookup() and if that has not found anything,
allocate and call ->lookup().  If we'd done that ->lookup(), remember that
dentry is good and we don't need to revalidate it.
	* now we have a dentry.  If it has ->d_revalidate() and we can't
skip it, call it.
	* hopefully dentry is good; if not, either fail (in case of error)
or try to invalidate it.  If d_invalidate() has succeeded, drop it and
retry everything as if original attempt had not found a dentry.
	* now we can finish it up - deal with mountpoint crossing and
automount.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:27 -04:00
Al Viro
40b39136f0 path_openat: clean ELOOP handling a bit
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:27 -04:00
Al Viro
f374ed5fa8 do_last: kill a rudiment of old ->d_revalidate() workaround
There used to be time when ->d_revalidate() couldn't return an error.
So intents code had lookup_instantiate_filp() stash ERR_PTR(error)
in nd->intent.open.filp and had it checked after lookup_hash(), to
catch the otherwise silent failures.  That had been introduced by
commit 4af4c52f34.  These days
->d_revalidate() can and does propagate errors back to callers
explicitly, so this check isn't needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:27 -04:00
Al Viro
6c0d46c493 fold __open_namei_create() and open_will_truncate() into do_last()
... and clean up a bit more

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:27 -04:00
Al Viro
ca344a894b do_last: unify may_open() call and everyting after it
We have a bunch of diverging codepaths in do_last(); some of
them converge, but the case of having to create a new file
duplicates large part of common tail of the rest and exits
separately.  Massage them so that they could be merged.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:27 -04:00
Al Viro
9b44f1b392 move may_open() from __open_name_create() to do_last()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:26 -04:00
Al Viro
0f9d1a10c3 expand finish_open() in its only caller
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:26 -04:00
Al Viro
5a202bcd75 sanitize pathname component hash calculation
Lift it to lookup_one_len() and link_path_walk() resp. into the
same place where we calculated default hash function of the same
name.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:26 -04:00
Al Viro
6a96ba5441 kill __lookup_one_len()
only one caller left

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:26 -04:00
Al Viro
fe2d35ff0d switch non-create side of open() to use of do_last()
Instead of path_lookupat() doing trailing symlink resolution,
use the same scheme as on the O_CREAT side.  Walk with
LOOKUP_PARENT, then (in do_last()) look the final component
up, then either open it or return error or, if it's a symlink,
give the symlink back to path_openat() to be resolved there.

The really messy complication here is RCU.  We don't want to drop
out of RCU mode before the final lookup, since we don't want to
bounce parent directory ->d_count without a good reason.

Result is _not_ pretty; later in the series we'll clean it up.
For now we are roughly back where we'd been before the revert
done by Nick's series - top-level logics of path_openat() is
cleaned up, do_last() does actual opening, symlink resolution is
done uniformly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:26 -04:00
Al Viro
70e9b35711 get rid of nd->file
Don't stash the struct file * used as starting point of walk in nameidata;
pass file ** to path_init() instead.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:26 -04:00
Al Viro
951361f954 get rid of the last LOOKUP_RCU dependencies in link_path_walk()
New helper: terminate_walk().  An error has happened during pathname
resolution and we either drop nd->path or terminate RCU, depending
the mode we had been in.  After that, nd is essentially empty.
Switch link_path_walk() to using that for cleanup.

Now the top-level logics in link_path_walk() is back to sanity.  RCU
dependencies are in the lower-level functions.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:26 -04:00
Al Viro
a7472baba2 make nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu_maybe() always leave RCU mode
Now we have do_follow_link() guaranteed to leave without dangling RCU
and the next step will get LOOKUP_RCU logics completely out of
link_path_walk().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
ef7562d528 make handle_dots() leave RCU mode on error
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
4455ca6223 clear RCU on all failure exits from link_path_walk()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
9856fa1b28 pull handling of . and .. into inlined helper
getting LOOKUP_RCU checks out of link_path_walk()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
7bc055d1d5 kill out_dput: in link_path_walk()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
13aab428a7 separate -ESTALE/-ECHILD retries in do_filp_open() from real work
new helper: path_openat().  Does what do_filp_open() does, except
that it tries only the walk mode (RCU/normal/force revalidation)
it had been told to.

Both create and non-create branches are using path_lookupat() now.
Fixed the double audit_inode() in non-create branch.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
47c805dc2d switch do_filp_open() to struct open_flags
take calculation of open_flags by open(2) arguments into new helper
in fs/open.c, move filp_open() over there, have it and do_sys_open()
use that helper, switch exec.c callers of do_filp_open() to explicit
(and constant) struct open_flags.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
c3e380b0b3 Collect "operation mode" arguments of do_last() into a structure
No point messing with passing shitloads of "operation mode" arguments
to do_open() one by one, especially since they are not going to change
during do_filp_open().  Collect them into a struct, fill it and pass
to do_last() by reference.

Make sure that lookup intent flags are correctly set and removed - we
want them for do_last(), but they make no sense for __do_follow_link().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:25 -04:00
Al Viro
f1afe9efc8 clean up the failure exits after __do_follow_link() in do_filp_open()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
36f3b4f690 pull security_inode_follow_link() into __do_follow_link()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
086e183a64 pull dropping RCU on success of link_path_walk() into path_lookupat()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
16c2cd7179 untangle the "need_reval_dot" mess
instead of ad-hackery around need_reval_dot(), do the following:
set a flag (LOOKUP_JUMPED) in the beginning of path, on absolute
symlink traversal, on ".." and on procfs-style symlinks.  Clear on
normal components, leave unchanged on ".".  Non-nested callers of
link_path_walk() call handle_reval_path(), which checks that flag
is set and that fs does want the final revalidate thing, then does
->d_revalidate().  In link_path_walk() all the return_reval stuff
is gone.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
fe479a580d merge component type recognition
no need to do it in three places...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
e41f7d4ee5 merge path_init and path_init_rcu
Actual dependency on whether we want RCU or not is in 3 small areas
(as it ought to be) and everything around those is the same in both
versions.  Since each function has only one caller and those callers
are on two sides of if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU), it's easier and cleaner
to merge them and pull the checks inside.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
ee0827cd6b sanitize path_walk() mess
New helper: path_lookupat().  Basically, what do_path_lookup() boils to
modulo -ECHILD/-ESTALE handler.  path_walk* family is gone; vfs_path_lookup()
is using link_path_walk() directly, do_path_lookup() and do_filp_open()
are using path_lookupat().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
52094c8a06 take RCU-dependent stuff around exec_permission() into a new helper
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:23 -04:00
Al Viro
c9c6cac0c2 kill path_lookup()
all remaining callers pass LOOKUP_PARENT to it, so
flags argument can die; renamed to kern_path_parent()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-14 09:15:23 -04:00
Al Viro
b306419ae0 nd->inode is not set on the second attempt in path_walk()
We leave it at whatever it had been pointing to after the
first link_path_walk() had failed with -ESTALE.  Things
do not work well after that...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-08 21:16:28 -05:00
Al Viro
1858efd471 minimal fix for do_filp_open() race
failure exits on the no-O_CREAT side of do_filp_open() merge with
those of O_CREAT one; unfortunately, if do_path_lookup() returns
-ESTALE, we'll get out_filp:, notice that we are about to return
-ESTALE without having trying to create the sucker with LOOKUP_REVAL
and jump right into the O_CREAT side of code.  And proceed to try
and create a file.  Usually that'll fail with -ESTALE again, but
we can race and get that attempt of pathname resolution to succeed.

open() without O_CREAT really shouldn't end up creating files, races
or not.  The real fix is to rearchitect the whole do_filp_open(),
but for now splitting the failure exits will do.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-03-04 13:14:21 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
3abb17e82f vfs: fix BUG_ON() in fs/namei.c:1461
When Al moved the nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu_maybe() call into the
do_follow_link function in commit 844a391799 ("nothing in
do_follow_link() is going to see RCU"), he mistakenly left the

	BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode);

behind.  Which would otherwise be ok, but that BUG_ON() really needs to
be _after_ dropping RCU, since the dentry isn't necessarily stable
otherwise.

So complete the code movement in that commit, and move the BUG_ON() into
do_follow_link() too.  This means that we need to pass in 'inode' as an
argument (just for this one use), but that's a small thing.  And
eventually we may be confident enough in our path lookup that we can
just remove the BUG_ON() and the unnecessary inode argument.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-16 08:56:55 -08:00
Al Viro
4e924a4f53 get rid of nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu() calling nameidata_drop_rcu()
can't happen anymore and didn't work right anyway

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-15 02:26:54 -05:00
Al Viro
f60aef7ec6 drop out of RCU in return_reval
... thus killing the need to handle drop-from-RCU in d_revalidate()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-15 02:26:54 -05:00
Al Viro
f5e1c1c1af split do_revalidate() into RCU and non-RCU cases
fixing oopsen in lookup_one_len()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-15 02:26:54 -05:00
Al Viro
24643087e7 in do_lookup() split RCU and non-RCU cases of need_revalidate
and use unlikely() instead of gotos, for fsck sake...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-15 02:26:54 -05:00
Al Viro
844a391799 nothing in do_follow_link() is going to see RCU
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-02-15 02:26:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
2dab597441 Fix possible filp_cachep memory corruption
In commit 31e6b01f41 ("fs: rcu-walk for path lookup") we started doing
path lookup using RCU, which then falls back to a careful non-RCU lookup
in case of problems (LOOKUP_REVAL).  So do_filp_open() has this "re-do
the lookup carefully" looping case.

However, that means that we must not release the open-intent file data
if we are going to loop around and use it once more!

Fix this by moving the release of the open-intent data to the function
that allocates it (do_filp_open() itself) rather than the helper
functions that can get called multiple times (finish_open() and
do_last()).  This makes the logic for the lifetime of that field much
more obvious, and avoids the possible double free.

Reported-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-11 15:53:38 -08:00
Ian Kent
8931221411 vfs - fix dentry ref count in do_lookup()
There is a ref count problem in fs/namei.c:do_lookup().

When walking in ref-walk mode, if follow_managed() returns a fail we
need to drop dentry and possibly vfsmount.  Clean up properly,
as we do in the other caller of follow_managed().

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-18 01:21:26 -05:00
Al Viro
19a167af7c Take the completion of automount into new helper
... and shift it from namei.c to namespace.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-17 01:35:23 -05:00
Al Viro
f03c65993b sanitize vfsmount refcounting changes
Instead of splitting refcount between (per-cpu) mnt_count
and (SMP-only) mnt_longrefs, make all references contribute
to mnt_count again and keep track of how many are longterm
ones.

Accounting rules for longterm count:
	* 1 for each fs_struct.root.mnt
	* 1 for each fs_struct.pwd.mnt
	* 1 for having non-NULL ->mnt_ns
	* decrement to 0 happens only under vfsmount lock exclusive

That allows nice common case for mntput() - since we can't drop the
final reference until after mnt_longterm has reached 0 due to the rules
above, mntput() can grab vfsmount lock shared and check mnt_longterm.
If it turns out to be non-zero (which is the common case), we know
that this is not the final mntput() and can just blindly decrement
percpu mnt_count.  Otherwise we grab vfsmount lock exclusive and
do usual decrement-and-check of percpu mnt_count.

For fs_struct.c we have mnt_make_longterm() and mnt_make_shortterm();
namespace.c uses the latter in places where we don't already hold
vfsmount lock exclusive and opencodes a few remaining spots where
we need to manipulate mnt_longterm.

Note that we mostly revert the code outside of fs/namespace.c back
to what we used to have; in particular, normal code doesn't need
to care about two kinds of references, etc.  And we get to keep
the optimization Nick's variant had bought us...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-16 13:47:07 -05:00
David Howells
ea5b778a8b Unexport do_add_mount() and add in follow_automount(), not ->d_automount()
Unexport do_add_mount() and make ->d_automount() return the vfsmount to be
added rather than calling do_add_mount() itself.  follow_automount() will then
do the addition.

This slightly complicates things as ->d_automount() normally wants to add the
new vfsmount to an expiration list and start an expiration timer.  The problem
with that is that the vfsmount will be deleted if it has a refcount of 1 and
the timer will not repeat if the expiration list is empty.

To this end, we require the vfsmount to be returned from d_automount() with a
refcount of (at least) 2.  One of these refs will be dropped unconditionally.
In addition, follow_automount() must get a 3rd ref around the call to
do_add_mount() lest it eat a ref and return an error, leaving the mount we
have open to being expired as we would otherwise have only 1 ref on it.

d_automount() should also add the the vfsmount to the expiration list (by
calling mnt_set_expiry()) and start the expiration timer before returning, if
this mechanism is to be used.  The vfsmount will be unlinked from the
expiration list by follow_automount() if do_add_mount() fails.

This patch also fixes the call to do_add_mount() for AFS to propagate the mount
flags from the parent vfsmount.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:48 -05:00
David Howells
ab90911ff9 Allow d_manage() to be used in RCU-walk mode
Allow d_manage() to be called from pathwalk when it is in RCU-walk mode as well
as when it is in Ref-walk mode.  This permits __follow_mount_rcu() to call
d_manage() directly.  d_manage() needs a parameter to indicate that it is in
RCU-walk mode as it isn't allowed to sleep if in that mode (but should return
-ECHILD instead).

autofs4_d_manage() can then be set to retain RCU-walk mode if the daemon
accesses it and otherwise request dropping back to ref-walk mode.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:47 -05:00
David Howells
87556ef199 Remove a further kludge from __do_follow_link()
Remove a further kludge from __do_follow_link() as it's no longer required with
the automount code.

This reverts the non-helper-function parts of
051d381259, which breaks union mounts.

Reported-by: vaurora@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:46 -05:00
David Howells
db3729153e Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk
Remove the automount through follow_link() kludge code from pathwalk in favour
of using d_automount().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:36 -05:00
David Howells
6f45b65672 Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automount
Add an AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag to suppress terminal automounting of automount
point directories.  This can be used by fstatat() users to permit the
gathering of attributes on an automount point and also prevent
mass-automounting of a directory of automount points by ls.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:33 -05:00
David Howells
cc53ce53c8 Add a dentry op to allow processes to be held during pathwalk transit
Add a dentry op (d_manage) to permit a filesystem to hold a process and make it
sleep when it tries to transit away from one of that filesystem's directories
during a pathwalk.  The operation is keyed off a new dentry flag
(DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT).

The filesystem is allowed to be selective about which processes it holds and
which it permits to continue on or prohibits from transiting from each flagged
directory.  This will allow autofs to hold up client processes whilst letting
its userspace daemon through to maintain the directory or the stuff behind it
or mounted upon it.

The ->d_manage() dentry operation:

	int (*d_manage)(struct path *path, bool mounting_here);

takes a pointer to the directory about to be transited away from and a flag
indicating whether the transit is undertaken by do_add_mount() or
do_move_mount() skipping through a pile of filesystems mounted on a mountpoint.

It should return 0 if successful and to let the process continue on its way;
-EISDIR to prohibit the caller from skipping to overmounted filesystems or
automounting, and to use this directory; or some other error code to return to
the user.

->d_manage() is called with namespace_sem writelocked if mounting_here is true
and no other locks held, so it may sleep.  However, if mounting_here is true,
it may not initiate or wait for a mount or unmount upon the parameter
directory, even if the act is actually performed by userspace.

Within fs/namei.c, follow_managed() is extended to check with d_manage() first
on each managed directory, before transiting away from it or attempting to
automount upon it.

follow_down() is renamed follow_down_one() and should only be used where the
filesystem deliberately intends to avoid management steps (e.g. autofs).

A new follow_down() is added that incorporates the loop done by all other
callers of follow_down() (do_add/move_mount(), autofs and NFSD; whilst AFS, NFS
and CIFS do use it, their use is removed by converting them to use
d_automount()).  The new follow_down() calls d_manage() as appropriate.  It
also takes an extra parameter to indicate if it is being called from mount code
(with namespace_sem writelocked) which it passes to d_manage().  follow_down()
ignores automount points so that it can be used to mount on them.

__follow_mount_rcu() is made to abort rcu-walk mode if it hits a directory with
DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT set on the basis that we're probably going to have to
sleep.  It would be possible to enter d_manage() in rcu-walk mode too, and have
that determine whether to abort or not itself.  That would allow the autofs
daemon to continue on in rcu-walk mode.

Note that DCACHE_MANAGE_TRANSIT on a directory should be cleared when it isn't
required as every tranist from that directory will cause d_manage() to be
invoked.  It can always be set again when necessary.

==========================
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR AUTOFS
==========================

Autofs currently uses the lookup() inode op and the d_revalidate() dentry op to
trigger the automounting of indirect mounts, and both of these can be called
with i_mutex held.

autofs knows that the i_mutex will be held by the caller in lookup(), and so
can drop it before invoking the daemon - but this isn't so for d_revalidate(),
since the lock is only held on _some_ of the code paths that call it.  This
means that autofs can't risk dropping i_mutex from its d_revalidate() function
before it calls the daemon.

The bug could manifest itself as, for example, a process that's trying to
validate an automount dentry that gets made to wait because that dentry is
expired and needs cleaning up:

	mkdir         S ffffffff8014e05a     0 32580  24956
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff885371fd>] :autofs4:autofs4_wait+0x674/0x897
	 [<ffffffff80127f7d>] avc_has_perm+0x46/0x58
	 [<ffffffff8009fdcf>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
	 [<ffffffff88537be6>] :autofs4:autofs4_expire_wait+0x41/0x6b
	 [<ffffffff88535cfc>] :autofs4:autofs4_revalidate+0x91/0x149
	 [<ffffffff80036d96>] __lookup_hash+0xa0/0x12f
	 [<ffffffff80057a2f>] lookup_create+0x46/0x80
	 [<ffffffff800e6e31>] sys_mkdirat+0x56/0xe4

versus the automount daemon which wants to remove that dentry, but can't
because the normal process is holding the i_mutex lock:

	automount     D ffffffff8014e05a     0 32581      1              32561
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff80063c3f>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x60/0x9b
	 [<ffffffff8000ccf1>] do_path_lookup+0x2ca/0x2f1
	 [<ffffffff80063c89>] .text.lock.mutex+0xf/0x14
	 [<ffffffff800e6d55>] do_rmdir+0x77/0xde
	 [<ffffffff8005d229>] tracesys+0x71/0xe0
	 [<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0

which means that the system is deadlocked.

This patch allows autofs to hold up normal processes whilst the daemon goes
ahead and does things to the dentry tree behind the automouter point without
risking a deadlock as almost no locks are held in d_manage() and none in
d_automount().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:07:31 -05:00
David Howells
9875cf8064 Add a dentry op to handle automounting rather than abusing follow_link()
Add a dentry op (d_automount) to handle automounting directories rather than
abusing the follow_link() inode operation.  The operation is keyed off a new
dentry flag (DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT).

This also makes it easier to add an AT_ flag to suppress terminal segment
automount during pathwalk and removes the need for the kludge code in the
pathwalk algorithm to handle directories with follow_link() semantics.

The ->d_automount() dentry operation:

	struct vfsmount *(*d_automount)(struct path *mountpoint);

takes a pointer to the directory to be mounted upon, which is expected to
provide sufficient data to determine what should be mounted.  If successful, it
should return the vfsmount struct it creates (which it should also have added
to the namespace using do_add_mount() or similar).  If there's a collision with
another automount attempt, NULL should be returned.  If the directory specified
by the parameter should be used directly rather than being mounted upon,
-EISDIR should be returned.  In any other case, an error code should be
returned.

The ->d_automount() operation is called with no locks held and may sleep.  At
this point the pathwalk algorithm will be in ref-walk mode.

Within fs/namei.c itself, a new pathwalk subroutine (follow_automount()) is
added to handle mountpoints.  It will return -EREMOTE if the automount flag was
set, but no d_automount() op was supplied, -ELOOP if we've encountered too many
symlinks or mountpoints, -EISDIR if the walk point should be used without
mounting and 0 if successful.  The path will be updated to point to the mounted
filesystem if a successful automount took place.

__follow_mount() is replaced by follow_managed() which is more generic
(especially with the patch that adds ->d_manage()).  This handles transits from
directories during pathwalk, including automounting and skipping over
mountpoints (and holding processes with the next patch).

__follow_mount_rcu() will jump out of RCU-walk mode if it encounters an
automount point with nothing mounted on it.

follow_dotdot*() does not handle automounts as you don't want to trigger them
whilst following "..".

I've also extracted the mount/don't-mount logic from autofs4 and included it
here.  It makes the mount go ahead anyway if someone calls open() or creat(),
tries to traverse the directory, tries to chdir/chroot/etc. into the directory,
or sticks a '/' on the end of the pathname.  If they do a stat(), however,
they'll only trigger the automount if they didn't also say O_NOFOLLOW.

I've also added an inode flag (S_AUTOMOUNT) so that filesystems can mark their
inodes as automount points.  This flag is automatically propagated to the
dentry as DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT by __d_instantiate().  This saves NFS and could
save AFS a private flag bit apiece, but is not strictly necessary.  It would be
preferable to do the propagation in d_set_d_op(), but that doesn't normally
have access to the inode.

[AV: fixed breakage in case if __follow_mount_rcu() fails and nameidata_drop_rcu()
succeeds in RCU case of do_lookup(); we need to fall through to non-RCU case after
that, rather than just returning with ungrabbed *path]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Was-Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:05:03 -05:00
Al Viro
1a8edf40e7 do_lookup() fix
do_lookup() has a path leading from LOOKUP_RCU case to non-RCU
crossing of mountpoints, which breaks things badly.  If we
hit need_revalidate: and do nothing in there, we need to come
back into LOOKUP_RCU half of things, not to done: in non-RCU
one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-15 20:03:39 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
acda4721ae Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
  kernel: fix hlist_bl again
  cgroups: Fix a lockdep warning at cgroup removal
  fs: namei fix ->put_link on wrong inode in do_filp_open
2011-01-14 09:08:29 -08:00
Nick Piggin
7b9337aaf9 fs: namei fix ->put_link on wrong inode in do_filp_open
J. R. Okajima noticed that ->put_link is being attempted on the
wrong inode, and suggested the way to fix it. I changed it a bit
according to Al's suggestion to keep an explicit link path around.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 08:42:43 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
db9effe99a Merge branch 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin
* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin:
  fs: fix do_last error case when need_reval_dot
  nfs: add missing rcu-walk check
  fs: hlist UP debug fixup
  fs: fix dropping of rcu-walk from force_reval_path
  fs: force_reval_path drop rcu-walk before d_invalidate
  fs: small rcu-walk documentation fixes

Fixed up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/porting
2011-01-13 20:14:13 -08:00
J. R. Okajima
f20877d94a fs: fix do_last error case when need_reval_dot
When open(2) without O_DIRECTORY opens an existing dir, it should return
EISDIR. In do_last(), the variable 'error' is initialized EISDIR, but it
is changed by d_revalidate() which returns any positive to represent
'the target dir is valid.'

Should we keep and return the initialized 'error' in this case.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 03:56:04 +00:00
Nick Piggin
90dbb77ba4 fs: fix dropping of rcu-walk from force_reval_path
As J. R. Okajima noted, force_reval_path passes in the same dentry to
d_revalidate as the one in the nameidata structure (other callers pass in a
child), so the locking breaks. This can oops with a chrooted nfs mount, for
example. Similarly there can be other problems with revalidating a dentry
which is already in nameidata of the path walk.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 02:36:19 +00:00
Nick Piggin
bb20c18db6 fs: force_reval_path drop rcu-walk before d_invalidate
d_revalidate can return in rcu-walk mode even when it returns 0.  We can't just
call any old dcache function on rcu-walk dentry (the dentry is unstable, so
even through d_lock can safely be taken, the result may no longer be what we
expect -- careful re-checks would be required). So just drop rcu in this case.

(I missed this conversion when switching to the rcu-walk convention that Linus
suggested)

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-14 02:35:53 +00:00
Jeff Layton
e1181ee657 vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try #2)
When a file is opened with O_TRUNC, the truncate processing is handled
by handle_truncate(). This function however doesn't receive any info
about the newly instantiated filp, and therefore can't pass that info
along so that the setattr can use it.

This makes NFSv4 misbehave. The client does an open and gets a valid
stateid, and then doesn't use that stateid on the subsequent truncate.
It uses the zero-stateid instead. Most servers ignore this fact and
just do the truncate anyway, but some don't like it (notably, RHEL4).

It seems more correct that since we have a fully instantiated file at
the time that handle_truncate is called, that we pass that along so
that the truncate operation can properly use it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-12 20:06:59 -05:00
Randy Dunlap
39191628ed fs: fix namei.c kernel-doc notation
Fix new kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/namei.c and spell
ECHILD correctly.

  Warning(fs/namei.c:218): No description found for parameter 'flags'
  Warning(fs/namei.c:425): Excess function parameter 'Returns' description in 'nameidata_drop_rcu'
  Warning(fs/namei.c:478): Excess function parameter 'Returns' description in 'nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu'
  Warning(fs/namei.c:540): Excess function parameter 'Returns' description in 'nameidata_drop_rcu_last'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-10 07:38:53 -08:00
Nick Piggin
b3e19d924b fs: scale mntget/mntput
The problem that this patch aims to fix is vfsmount refcounting scalability.
We need to take a reference on the vfsmount for every successful path lookup,
which often go to the same mount point.

The fundamental difficulty is that a "simple" reference count can never be made
scalable, because any time a reference is dropped, we must check whether that
was the last reference. To do that requires communication with all other CPUs
that may have taken a reference count.

We can make refcounts more scalable in a couple of ways, involving keeping
distributed counters, and checking for the global-zero condition less
frequently.

- check the global sum once every interval (this will delay zero detection
  for some interval, so it's probably a showstopper for vfsmounts).

- keep a local count and only taking the global sum when local reaches 0 (this
  is difficult for vfsmounts, because we can't hold preempt off for the life of
  a reference, so a counter would need to be per-thread or tied strongly to a
  particular CPU which requires more locking).

- keep a local difference of increments and decrements, which allows us to sum
  the total difference and hence find the refcount when summing all CPUs. Then,
  keep a single integer "long" refcount for slow and long lasting references,
  and only take the global sum of local counters when the long refcount is 0.

This last scheme is what I implemented here. Attached mounts and process root
and working directory references are "long" references, and everything else is
a short reference.

This allows scalable vfsmount references during path walking over mounted
subtrees and unattached (lazy umounted) mounts with processes still running
in them.

This results in one fewer atomic op in the fastpath: mntget is now just a
per-CPU inc, rather than an atomic inc; and mntput just requires a spinlock
and non-atomic decrement in the common case. However code is otherwise bigger
and heavier, so single threaded performance is basically a wash.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:33 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b74c79e993 fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
34286d6662 fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk
mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning
-ECHILD from all implementations.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
Nick Piggin
fb045adb99 fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.

Patched with:

git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:28 +11:00
Nick Piggin
c28cc36469 fs: fs_struct use seqlock
Use a seqlock in the fs_struct to enable us to take an atomic copy of the
complete cwd and root paths. Use this in the RCU lookup path to avoid a
thread-shared spinlock in RCU lookup operations.

Multi-threaded apps may now perform path lookups with scalability matching
multi-process apps. Operations such as stat(2) become very scalable for
multi-threaded workload.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:27 +11:00
Nick Piggin
31e6b01f41 fs: rcu-walk for path lookup
Perform common cases of path lookups without any stores or locking in the
ancestor dentry elements. This is called rcu-walk, as opposed to the current
algorithm which is a refcount based walk, or ref-walk.

This results in far fewer atomic operations on every path element,
significantly improving path lookup performance. It also avoids cacheline
bouncing on common dentries, significantly improving scalability.

The overall design is like this:
* LOOKUP_RCU is set in nd->flags, which distinguishes rcu-walk from ref-walk.
* Take the RCU lock for the entire path walk, starting with the acquiring
  of the starting path (eg. root/cwd/fd-path). So now dentry refcounts are
  not required for dentry persistence.
* synchronize_rcu is called when unregistering a filesystem, so we can
  access d_ops and i_ops during rcu-walk.
* Similarly take the vfsmount lock for the entire path walk. So now mnt
  refcounts are not required for persistence. Also we are free to perform mount
  lookups, and to assume dentry mount points and mount roots are stable up and
  down the path.
* Have a per-dentry seqlock to protect the dentry name, parent, and inode,
  so we can load this tuple atomically, and also check whether any of its
  members have changed.
* Dentry lookups (based on parent, candidate string tuple) recheck the parent
  sequence after the child is found in case anything changed in the parent
  during the path walk.
* inode is also RCU protected so we can load d_inode and use the inode for
  limited things.
* i_mode, i_uid, i_gid can be tested for exec permissions during path walk.
* i_op can be loaded.

When we reach the destination dentry, we lock it, recheck lookup sequence,
and increment its refcount and mountpoint refcount. RCU and vfsmount locks
are dropped. This is termed "dropping rcu-walk". If the dentry refcount does
not match, we can not drop rcu-walk gracefully at the current point in the
lokup, so instead return -ECHILD (for want of a better errno). This signals the
path walking code to re-do the entire lookup with a ref-walk.

Aside from the final dentry, there are other situations that may be encounted
where we cannot continue rcu-walk. In that case, we drop rcu-walk (ie. take
a reference on the last good dentry) and continue with a ref-walk. Again, if
we can drop rcu-walk gracefully, we return -ECHILD and do the whole lookup
using ref-walk. But it is very important that we can continue with ref-walk
for most cases, particularly to avoid the overhead of double lookups, and to
gain the scalability advantages on common path elements (like cwd and root).

The cases where rcu-walk cannot continue are:
* NULL dentry (ie. any uncached path element)
* parent with d_inode->i_op->permission or ACLs
* dentries with d_revalidate
* Following links

In future patches, permission checks and d_revalidate become rcu-walk aware. It
may be possible eventually to make following links rcu-walk aware.

Uncached path elements will always require dropping to ref-walk mode, at the
very least because i_mutex needs to be grabbed, and objects allocated.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:27 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b7ab39f631 fs: dcache scale dentry refcount
Make d_count non-atomic and protect it with d_lock. This allows us to ensure a
0 refcount dentry remains 0 without dcache_lock. It is also fairly natural when
we start protecting many other dentry members with d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b1e6a015a5 fs: change d_hash for rcu-walk
Change d_hash so it may be called from lock-free RCU lookups. See similar
patch for d_compare for details.

For in-tree filesystems, this is just a mechanical change.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:20 +11:00
Lino Sanfilippo
b1085ba80c fanotify: if set by user unset FMODE_NONOTIFY before fsnotify_perm() is called
Unsetting FMODE_NONOTIFY in fsnotify_open() is too late, since fsnotify_perm()
is called before. If FMODE_NONOTIFY is set fsnotify_perm() will skip permission
checks, so a user can still disable permission checks by setting this flag
in an open() call.
This patch corrects this by unsetting the flag before fsnotify_perm is called.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-12-07 16:14:21 -05:00
Al Viro
d893f1bc2a fix open/umount race
nameidata_to_filp() drops nd->path or transfers it to opened
file.  In the former case it's a Bad Idea(tm) to do mnt_drop_write()
on nd->path.mnt, since we might race with umount and vfsmount in
question might be gone already.

Fix: don't drop it, then...  IOW, have nameidata_to_filp() grab nd->path
in case it transfers it to file and do path_drop() in callers.  After
they are through with accessing nd->path...

Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29 04:14:56 -04:00
Al Viro
7de9c6ee3e new helper: ihold()
Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
81fca44400 fs: move permission check back into __lookup_hash
The caller that didn't need it is gone.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:18:19 -04:00
Nick Piggin
99b7db7b8f fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock

Use a brlock for the vfsmount lock. It must be taken for write whenever
modifying the mount hash or associated fields, and may be taken for read when
performing mount hash lookups.

A new lock is added for the mnt-id allocator, so it doesn't need to take
the heavy vfsmount write-lock.

The number of atomics should remain the same for fastpath rlock cases, though
code would be slightly slower due to per-cpu access. Scalability is not not be
much improved in common cases yet, due to other locks (ie. dcache_lock) getting
in the way. However path lookups crossing mountpoints should be one case where
scalability is improved (currently requiring the global lock).

The slowpath is slower due to use of brlock. On a 64 core, 64 socket, 32 node
Altix system (high latency to remote nodes), a simple umount microbenchmark
(mount --bind mnt mnt2 ; umount mnt2 loop 1000 times), before this patch it
took 6.8s, afterwards took 7.1s, about 5% slower.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:48 -04:00
Nick Piggin
b04f784e5d fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash

Optimize lookup for create operations, where no dentry should often be
common-case. In cases where it is not, such as unlink, the added overhead
is much smaller than the removed.

Also, move comments about __d_lookup racyness to the __d_lookup call site.
d_lookup is intuitive; __d_lookup is what needs commenting. So in that same
vein, add kerneldoc comments to __d_lookup and clean up some of the comments:

- We are interested in how the RCU lookup works here, particularly with
  renames. Make that explicit, and point to the document where it is explained
  in more detail.
- RCU is pretty standard now, and macros make implementations pretty mindless.
  If we want to know about RCU barrier details, we look in RCU code.
- Delete some boring legacy comments because we don't care much about how the
  code used to work, more about the interesting parts of how it works now. So
  comments about lazy LRU may be interesting, but would better be done in the
  LRU or refcount management code.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:47 -04:00
Nick Piggin
baa0389073 fs: dentry allocation consolidation
fs: dentry allocation consolidation

There are 2 duplicate copies of code in dentry allocation in path lookup.
Consolidate them into a single function.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:45 -04:00
Nick Piggin
2e2e88ea8c fs: fix do_lookup false negative
fs: fix do_lookup false negative

In do_lookup, if we initially find no dentry, we take the directory i_mutex and
re-check the lookup. If we find a dentry there, then we revalidate it if
needed. However if that revalidate asks for the dentry to be invalidated, we
return -ENOENT from do_lookup. What should happen instead is an attempt to
allocate and lookup a new dentry.

This is probably not noticed because it is rare. It is only reached if a
concurrent create races in first (in which case, the dentry probably won't be
invalidated anyway), or if the racy __d_lookup has failed due to a
false-negative (which is very rare).

Fix this by removing code and have it use the normal reval path.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18 08:35:45 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
f7ad3c6be9 vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd
Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd
from the supplied fs_struct.

 get_fs_root()
 get_fs_pwd()
 get_fs_root_and_pwd()

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-11 00:28:20 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8c8946f509 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits)
  fanotify: use both marks when possible
  fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
  fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
  fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
  fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
  fsnotify: remove group->mask
  fsnotify: remove the global masks
  fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
  fanotify: use the mark in handler functions
  audit: use the mark in handler functions
  dnotify: use the mark in handler functions
  inotify: use the mark in handler functions
  fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
  fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements
  fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
  fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called
  fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal
  fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address
  vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
  fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
  ...

Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
Eric Paris
d09ca73979 security: make LSMs explicitly mask off permissions
SELinux needs to pass the MAY_ACCESS flag so it can handle auditting
correctly.  Presently the masking of MAY_* flags is done in the VFS.  In
order to allow LSMs to decide what flags they care about and what flags
they don't just pass them all and the each LSM mask off what they don't
need.  This patch should contain no functional changes to either the VFS or
any LSM.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:35:07 +10:00
Tetsuo Handa
ea0d3ab239 LSM: Remove unused arguments from security_path_truncate().
When commit be6d3e56a6 "introduce new LSM hooks
where vfsmount is available." was proposed, regarding security_path_truncate(),
only "struct file *" argument (which AppArmor wanted to use) was removed.
But length and time_attrs arguments are not used by TOMOYO nor AppArmor.
Thus, let's remove these arguments.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:33:40 +10:00
Eric Paris
59b0df211b fsnotify: use unsigned char * for dentry->d_name.name
fsnotify was using char * when it passed around the d_name.name string
internally but it is actually an unsigned char *.  This patch switches
fsnotify to use unsigned and should silence some pointer signess warnings
which have popped out of xfs.  I do not add -Wpointer-sign to the fsnotify
code as there are still issues with kstrdup and strlen which would pop
out needless warnings.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -04:00
Neil Brown
176306f59a VFS: fix recent breakage of FS_REVAL_DOT
Commit 1f36f774b2 broke FS_REVAL_DOT semantics.

In particular, before this patch, the command
   ls -l
in an NFS mounted directory would always check if the directory on the server
had changed and if so would flush and refill the pagecache for the dir.
After this patch, the same "ls -l" will repeatedly return stale date until
the cached attributes for the directory time out.

The following patch fixes this by ensuring the d_revalidate is called by
do_last when "." is being looked-up.
link_path_walk has already called d_revalidate, but in that case LOOKUP_OPEN
is not set so nfs_lookup_verify_inode chooses not to do any validation.

The following patch restores the original behaviour.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:03:06 -04:00
Huang Shijie
9a2296832c namei.c : update mnt when it needed
update the mnt of the path when it is not equal to the new one.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:22 -04:00
Al Viro
d83c49f3e3 Fix the regression created by "set S_DEAD on unlink()..." commit
1) i_flags simply doesn't work for mount/unlink race prevention;
we may have many links to file and rm on one of those obviously
shouldn't prevent bind on top of another later on.  To fix it
right way we need to mark _dentry_ as unsuitable for mounting
upon; new flag (DCACHE_CANT_MOUNT) is protected by d_flags and
i_mutex on the inode in question.  Set it (with dont_mount(dentry))
in unlink/rmdir/etc., check (with cant_mount(dentry)) in places
in namespace.c that used to check for S_DEAD.  Setting S_DEAD
is still needed in places where we used to set it (for directories
getting killed), since we rely on it for readdir/rmdir race
prevention.

2) rename()/mount() protection has another bogosity - we unhash
the target before we'd checked that it's not a mountpoint.  Fixed.

3) ancient bogosity in pivot_root() - we locked i_mutex on the
right directory, but checked S_DEAD on the different (and wrong)
one.  Noticed and fixed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-15 07:16:33 -04:00
Jan Kara
002baeecf5 vfs: Fix O_NOFOLLOW behavior for paths with trailing slashes
According to specification

	mkdir d; ln -s d a; open("a/", O_NOFOLLOW | O_RDONLY)

should return success but currently it returns ELOOP.  This is a
regression caused by path lookup cleanup patch series.

Fix the code to ignore O_NOFOLLOW in case the provided path has trailing
slashes.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Marius Tolzmann <tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-13 08:46:04 -07:00
Al Viro
3e297b6134 Restore LOOKUP_DIRECTORY hint handling in final lookup on open()
Lose want_dir argument, while we are at it - since now
nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY is equivalent to it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-26 12:41:05 -04:00
Jiri Kosina
318ae2edc3 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Al Viro
781b16775b Fix a dumb typo - use of & instead of &&
We managed to lose O_DIRECTORY testing due to a stupid typo in commit
1f36f774b2 ("Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last()")

Reported-by: Walter Sheets <w41ter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 10:54:48 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e213e26ab3 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits)
  quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA
  dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
  dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
  dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
  dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem
  dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
  dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
  ext3: add writepage sanity checks
  ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size
  quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize
  quota: generalize quota transfer interface
  quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup
  jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer
  ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour
  quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota
  quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c
  quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c
  quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all
  ...

Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c
2010-03-05 13:20:53 -08:00
Al Viro
1f36f774b2 Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last()
... and now we have all intents crap well localized

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:22:25 -05:00
Al Viro
def4af30cf Get rid of symlink body copying
Now that nd->last stays around until ->put_link() is called, we can
just postpone that ->put_link() in do_filp_open() a bit and don't
bother with copying.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:40 -05:00
Al Viro
3866248e5f Finish pulling of -ESTALE handling to upper level in do_filp_open()
Don't bother with path_walk() (and its retry loop); link_path_walk()
will do it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:38 -05:00
Al Viro
806b681cbe Turn do_link spaghetty into a normal loop
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:36 -05:00
Al Viro
10fa8e62f2 Unify exits in O_CREAT handling
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:35 -05:00
Al Viro
9e67f36169 Kill is_link argument of do_last()
We set it to 1 iff we return NULL

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:33 -05:00
Al Viro
67ee3ad21d Pull handling of LAST_BIND into do_last(), clean up ok: part in do_filp_open()
Note that in case of !O_CREAT we know that nd.root has already been given up

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:31 -05:00
Al Viro
4296e2cbf2 Leave mangled flag only for setting nd.intent.open.flag
Nothing else uses it anymore

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:29 -05:00
Al Viro
5b369df826 Get rid of passing mangled flag to do_last()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:27 -05:00
Al Viro
9a66179e13 Don't pass mangled open_flag to finish_open()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:25 -05:00
Al Viro
a2c36b450e pull more into do_last()
Handling of LAST_DOT/LAST_ROOT/LAST_DOTDOT/terminating slash
can be pulled in as well

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:24 -05:00
Al Viro
c99658fe97 bail out with ELOOP earlier in do_link loop
If we'd passed through 32 trailing symlinks already, there's
no sense following the 33rd - we'll bail out anyway.  Better
bugger off earlier.

It *does* change behaviour, after a fashion - if the 33rd happens
to be a procfs-style symlink, original code *would* allow it.
This one will not.  Cry me a river if that hurts you.  Please, do.
And post a video of that, while you are at it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:22 -05:00
Al Viro
a1e28038df pull the common predecessors into do_last()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:20 -05:00
Al Viro
c41c140562 postpone __putname() until after do_last()
Since do_last() doesn't mangle nd->last_name, we can safely postpone
__putname() done in handling of trailing symlinks until after the
call of do_last()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:18 -05:00
Al Viro
27bff34300 unroll do_last: loop in do_filp_open()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:16 -05:00
Al Viro
3343eb8209 Shift releasing nd->root from do_last() to its caller
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:15 -05:00
Al Viro
fb1cc555d5 gut do_filp_open() a bit more (do_last separation)
Brute-force separation of stuff reachable from do_last: with
the exception of do_link:; just take all that crap to a helper
function as-is and have it tell the caller if it has to go
to do_link.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:13 -05:00
Al Viro
648fa8611d beginning to untangle do_filp_open()
That's going to be a long and painful series.  The first step:
take the stuff reachable from 'ok' label in do_filp_open() into
a new helper (finish_open()).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-05 09:01:11 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
907f4554e2 dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem
Currently various places in the VFS call vfs_dq_init directly.  This means
we tie the quota code into the VFS.  Get rid of that and make the
filesystem responsible for the initialization.   For most metadata operations
this is a straight forward move into the methods, but for truncate and
open it's a bit more complicated.

For truncate we currently only call vfs_dq_init for the sys_truncate case
because open already takes care of it for ftruncate and open(O_TRUNC) - the
new code causes an additional vfs_dq_init for those which is harmless.

For open the initialization is moved from do_filp_open into the open method,
which means it happens slightly earlier now, and only for regular files.
The latter is fine because we don't need to initialize it for operations
on special files, and we already do it as part of the namespace operations
for directories.

Add a dquot_file_open helper that filesystems that support generic quotas
can use to fill in ->open.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
Al Viro
9643f5d94a Merge branch 'for-fsnotify' into for-linus 2010-03-03 17:12:40 -05:00
Al Viro
bec1052e5b set S_DEAD on unlink() and non-directory rename() victims
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:12:08 -05:00
Al Viro
3088dd7080 Clean follow_dotdot() up a bit
No need to open-code follow_up() in it and locking can be lighter.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 14:07:56 -05:00
Al Viro
8737c9305b Switch may_open() and break_lease() to passing O_...
... instead of mixing FMODE_ and O_

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03 13:00:21 -05:00
Al Viro
ac278a9c50 fix LOOKUP_FOLLOW on automount "symlinks"
Make sure that automount "symlinks" are followed regardless of LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
it should have no effect on them.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-19 03:56:42 -05:00
Al Viro
cccc6bba3f Lose the first argument of audit_inode_child()
it's always equal to ->d_name.name of the second argument

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-08 14:38:36 -05:00
Al Viro
123df2944c Lose the new_name argument of fsnotify_move()
it's always new_dentry->d_name.name

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-08 14:38:36 -05:00
Mimi Zohar
9bbb6cad01 ima: rename ima_path_check to ima_file_check
ima_path_check actually deals with files!  call it ima_file_check instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-07 03:06:22 -05:00
Mimi Zohar
8eb988c70e fix ima breakage
The "Untangling ima mess, part 2 with counters" patch messed
up the counters.  Based on conversations with Al Viro, this patch
streamlines ima_path_check() by removing the counter maintaince.
The counters are now updated independently, from measuring the file,
in __dentry_open() and alloc_file() by calling ima_counts_get().
ima_path_check() is called from nfsd and do_filp_open().
It also did not measure all files that should have been measured.
Reason: ima_path_check() got bogus value passed as mask.
[AV: mea culpa]
[AV: add missing nfsd bits]

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-07 03:06:22 -05:00
Adam Buchbinder
c41b20e721 Fix misspellings of "truly" in comments.
Some comments misspell "truly"; this fixes them. No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-04 11:55:45 +01:00
Al Viro
9850c05655 Fix the -ESTALE handling in do_filp_open()
Instead of playing sick games with path saving, cleanups, just retry
the entire thing once with LOOKUP_REVAL added.  Post-.34 we'll convert
all -ESTALE handling in there to that style, rather than playing with
many retry loops deep in the call chain.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-14 09:05:26 -05:00
Al Viro
6d125529c6 Fix ACC_MODE() for real
commit 5300990c03 had stepped on a rather
nasty mess: definitions of ACC_MODE used to be different.  Fixed the
resulting breakage, converting them to variant that takes O_... value;
all callers have that and it actually simplifies life (see tomoyo part
of changes).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-14 09:05:26 -05:00
Al Viro
86acdca1b6 fix autofs/afs/etc. magic mountpoint breakage
We end up trying to kfree() nd.last.name on open("/mnt/tmp", O_CREAT)
if /mnt/tmp is an autofs direct mount.  The reason is that nd.last_type
is bogus here; we want LAST_BIND for everything of that kind and we
get LAST_NORM left over from finding parent directory.

So make sure that it *is* set properly; set to LAST_BIND before
doing ->follow_link() - for normal symlinks it will be changed
by __vfs_follow_link() and everything else needs it set that way.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-14 09:05:25 -05:00
Serge E. Hallyn
7ea6600148 generic_permission: MAY_OPEN is not write access
generic_permission was refusing CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH-enabled
processes from opening DAC-protected files read-only, because
do_filp_open adds MAY_OPEN to the open mask.

Ignore MAY_OPEN.  After this patch, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH is
again sufficient to open(fname, O_RDONLY) on a file to which
DAC otherwise refuses us read permission.

Reported-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-30 12:35:44 -08:00
Al Viro
5300990c03 Sanitize f_flags helpers
* pull ACC_MODE to fs.h; we have several copies all over the place
* nightmarish expression calculating f_mode by f_flags deserves a helper
too (OPEN_FMODE(flags))

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
Al Viro
482928d59d Fix f_flags/f_mode in case of lookup_instantiate_filp() from open(pathname, 3)
Just set f_flags when shoving struct file into nameidata; don't
postpone that until __dentry_open().  do_filp_open() has correct
value; lookup_instantiate_filp() doesn't - we lose the difference
between O_RDWR and 3 by that point.

We still set .intent.open.flags, so no fs code needs to be changed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-22 12:27:34 -05:00
Jeff Layton
cb59861f03 vfs: remove extraneous NULL d_inode check from do_filp_open
We can't get to this point unless it's a valid pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-17 10:52:34 -05:00
Jeff Layton
39159de2a0 vfs: force reval of target when following LAST_BIND symlinks (try #7)
procfs-style symlinks return a last_type of LAST_BIND without an actual
path string. This causes __follow_link to skip calling __vfs_follow_link
and so the dentry isn't revalidated.

This is a problem when the link target sits on NFSv4 as it depends on
the VFS to revalidate the dentry before using it on an open call. Ensure
that this occurs by forcing a revalidation of the target dentry of
LAST_BIND symlinks.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:48 -05:00
Al Viro
1429b3eca2 Untangling ima mess, part 3: kill dead code in ima
Kill the 'update' argument of ima_path_check(), kill
dead code in ima.

Current rules: ima counters are bumped at the same time
when the file switches from put_filp() fodder to fput()
one.  Which happens exactly in two places - alloc_file()
and __dentry_open().  Nothing else needs to do that at
all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:47 -05:00
Al Viro
b65a9cfc2c Untangling ima mess, part 2: deal with counters
* do ima_get_count() in __dentry_open()
* stop doing that in followups
* move ima_path_check() to right after nameidata_to_filp()
* don't bump counters on it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:47 -05:00
Al Viro
7715b52122 O_TRUNC open shouldn't fail after file truncation
* take truncate logics into a helper (handle_truncate())
* rip it out of may_open()
* call it from the only caller of may_open() that might pass
O_TRUNC
* and do that after we'd finished with opening.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:47 -05:00
Eric Paris
e81e3f4dca fs: move get_empty_filp() deffinition to internal.h
All users outside of fs/ of get_empty_filp() have been removed.  This patch
moves the definition from the include/ directory to internal.h so no new
users crop up and removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL.  I'd love to see open intents
stop using it too, but that's a problem for another day and a smarter
developer!

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:45 -05:00
Al Viro
b75b5086be Sanitize exec_permission_lite()
Use the sucker in other places in pathname resolution
that check MAY_EXEC for directories; lose the _lite
from name, it's equivalent of full-blown inode_permission()
for its callers (albeit still lighter, since large parts
of generic_permission() do not apply for pure MAY_EXEC).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:45 -05:00
Al Viro
6e6b1bd1e7 Kill cached_lookup() and real_lookup()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:45 -05:00
Al Viro
2dd6d1f418 Kill path_lookup_open()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:45 -05:00
Al Viro
3cac260ad8 Take hash recalculation into do_lookup()
Both callers of do_lookup() do the same thing before it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:44 -05:00
Al Viro
6de88d7292 kill __link_path_walk()/link_path_walk() distinction
put retry logics into path_walk() and do_filp_open()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:43 -05:00
Al Viro
258fa99905 lift path_put(path) to callers of __do_follow_link()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16 12:16:43 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
3126c136bc Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits)
  ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format
  ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
  quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits
  quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h
  ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values
  ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
  ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error
  ext2: Unify log messages in ext2
  ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
  ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
  ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
  ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes
  quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len
  const: struct quota_format_ops
  ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
  vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
  ...
2009-12-11 15:31:13 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
832b6af198 sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand
By teaching sysfs_revalidate to hide a dentry for
a sysfs_dirent if the sysfs_dirent has been renamed,
and by teaching sysfs_lookup to return the original
dentry if the sysfs dirent has been renamed.  I can
show the results of renames correctly without having to
update the dcache during the directory rename.

This massively simplifies the rename logic allowing a lot
of weird sysfs special cases to be removed along with
a lot of now unnecesary helper code.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 11:24:54 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
6b2f3d1f76 vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until
Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems,
since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the
great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give
O_DSYNC" comment.  This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC
semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics.  After Jan's O_SYNC
patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly
simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to
vfs_fsync_range and when not.

This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's
numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC
flag.  To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to
both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make
sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers.

This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can
just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only
places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition.  Drivers and
network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the
full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set.  The few places setting O_SYNC for
lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe.

We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path
to make sure we always get these sane options.

Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a
O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op.  We try to repair it by using it for
the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional
O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-10 15:02:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f6f7919086 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (57 commits)
  binfmt_elf: fix PT_INTERP bss handling
  TPM: Fixup boot probe timeout for tpm_tis driver
  sysfs: Add labeling support for sysfs
  LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security context information.
  VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx.
  KEYS: Add missing linux/tracehook.h #inclusions
  KEYS: Fix default security_session_to_parent()
  Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.c
  KEYS: security_cred_alloc_blank() should return int under all circumstances
  IMA: open new file for read
  KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]
  KEYS: Extend TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME to (almost) all architectures [try #6]
  KEYS: Do some whitespace cleanups [try #6]
  KEYS: Make /proc/keys use keyid not numread as file position [try #6]
  KEYS: Add garbage collection for dead, revoked and expired keys. [try #6]
  KEYS: Flag dead keys to induce EKEYREVOKED [try #6]
  KEYS: Allow keyctl_revoke() on keys that have SETATTR but not WRITE perm [try #6]
  KEYS: Deal with dead-type keys appropriately [try #6]
  CRED: Add some configurable debugging [try #6]
  selinux: Support for the new TUN LSM hooks
  ...
2009-09-11 08:55:49 -07:00
James Morris
a3c8b97396 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-09-11 08:04:49 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
5909ccaa30 Make 'check_acl()' a first-class filesystem op
This is stage one in flattening out the callchains for the common
permission testing.  Rather than have most filesystem implement their
own inode->i_op->permission function that just calls back down to the
VFS layers 'generic_permission()' with the per-filesystem ACL checking
function, the filesystem can just expose its 'check_acl' function
directly, and let the VFS layer do everything for it.

This is all just preparatory - no filesystem actually enables this yet.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cb9179ead0 Simplify exec_permission_lite(), part 3
Don't call down to the generic inode_permission() function just to
call the inode-specific permission function - just do it directly.

The generic inode_permission() code does things like checking MAY_WRITE
and devcgroup_inode_permission(), neither of which are relevant for the
light pathname walk permission checks (we always do just MAY_EXEC, and
the inode is never a special device).

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f1ac9f6bfe Simplify exec_permission_lite() further
This function is only called for path components that are already known
to be directories (they have a '->lookup' method).  So don't bother
doing that whole S_ISDIR() testing, the whole point of the 'lite()'
version is that we know that we are looking at a directory component,
and that we're only checking name lookup permission.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b7a437b08a Simplify exec_permission_lite() logic
Instead of returning EAGAIN and having the caller do something
special for that case,  just do the special case directly.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e8e66ed25b Do not call 'ima_path_check()' for each path component
Not only is that a supremely timing-critical path, but it's hopefully
some day going to be lockless for the common case, and ima can't do
that.

Plus the integrity code doesn't even care about non-regular files, so it
was always a total waste of time and effort.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:07:17 -07:00
Mimi Zohar
acd0c93517 IMA: update ima_counts_put
- As ima_counts_put() may be called after the inode has been freed,
verify that the inode is not NULL, before dereferencing it.

- Maintain the IMA file counters in may_open() properly, decrementing
any counter increments on subsequent errors.

Reported-by: Ciprian Docan <docan@eden.rutgers.edu>
Reported-by: J.R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07 11:54:58 +10:00
Mimi Zohar
6c1488fd58 IMA: open new file for read
When creating a new file, ima_path_check() assumed the new file
was being opened for write. Call ima_path_check() with the
appropriate acc_mode so that the read/write counters are
incremented correctly.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-03 12:06:12 +10:00
Mimi Zohar
94e5d714f6 integrity: add ima_counts_put (updated)
This patch fixes an imbalance message as reported by J.R. Okajima.
The IMA file counters are incremented in ima_path_check. If the
actual open fails, such as ETXTBSY, decrement the counters to
prevent unnecessary imbalance messages.

Reported-by: J.R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-06-29 08:59:10 +10:00
J. R. Okajima
654f562c52 vfs: fix nd->root leak in do_filp_open()
commit 2a73787110 "Cache root in nameidata"
introduced a new member nd->root, but forgot to put it in do_filp_open().

Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 08:15:24 -04:00
Al Viro
1c755af4df switch lookup_mnt()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:01 -04:00
Al Viro
79ed022619 switch follow_mount()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:01 -04:00
Al Viro
9393bd07cf switch follow_down()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:01 -04:00
Al Viro
bab77ebf51 switch follow_up() to struct path
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:36:00 -04:00
Al Viro
5b85711953 Make vfs_path_lookup() use starting point as root
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:35:59 -04:00
Al Viro
2a73787110 Cache root in nameidata
New field: nd->root.  When pathname resolution wants to know the root,
check if nd->root.mnt is non-NULL; use nd->root if it is, otherwise
copy current->fs->root there.  After path_walk() is finished, we check
if we'd got a cached value in nd->root and drop it.  Before calling
path_walk() we should either set nd->root.mnt to NULL *or* copy (and
pin down) some path to nd->root.  In the latter case we won't be
looking at current->fs->root at all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:35:59 -04:00
Al Viro
9b4a9b14a7 Preparations to caching root in path_walk()
Split do_path_lookup(), opencode the call from do_filp_open()
do_filp_open() is the only caller of do_path_lookup() that
cares about root afterwards (it keeps resolving symlinks on
O_CREAT path after it'd done LOOKUP_PARENT walk).  So when
we start caching fs->root in path_walk(), it'll need a different
treatment.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-11 21:35:58 -04:00
James Morris
2c9e703c61 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/exec.c

Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()).

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22 18:40:59 +10:00
Mimi Zohar
b9fc745db8 integrity: path_check update
- Add support in ima_path_check() for integrity checking without
incrementing the counts. (Required for nfsd.)
- rename and export opencount_get to ima_counts_get
- replace ima_shm_check calls with ima_counts_get
- export ima_path_check

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22 09:43:41 +10:00
Al Viro
6e8341a11e Switch open_exec() and sys_uselib() to do_open_filp()
... and make path_lookup_open() static

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:42 -04:00
David Woodhouse
2f9092e102 Fix i_mutex vs. readdir handling in nfsd
Commit 14f7dd63 ("Copy XFS readdir hack into nfsd code") introduced a
bug to generic code which had been extant for a long time in the XFS
version -- it started to call through into lookup_one_len() and hence
into the file systems' ->lookup() methods without i_mutex held on the
directory.

This patch fixes it by locking the directory's i_mutex again before
calling the filldir functions. The original deadlocks which commit
14f7dd63 was designed to avoid are still avoided, because they were due
to fs-internal locking, not i_mutex.

While we're at it, fix the return type of nfsd_buffered_readdir() which
should be a __be32 not an int -- it's an NFS errno, not a Linux errno.
And return nfserrno(-ENOMEM) when allocation fails, not just -ENOMEM.
Sparse would have caught that, if it wasn't so busy bitching about
__cold__.

Commit 05f4f678 ("nfsd4: don't do lookup within readdir in recovery
code") introduced a similar problem with calling lookup_one_len()
without i_mutex, which this patch also addresses. To fix that, it was
necessary to fix the called functions so that they expect i_mutex to be
held; that part was done by J. Bruce Fields.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Umm-I-can-live-with-that-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Tested-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
LKML-Reference: <8036.1237474444@jrobl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
Al Viro
5ad4e53bd5 Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
Don't pull it in sched.h; very few files actually need it and those
can include directly.  sched.h itself only needs forward declaration
of struct fs_struct;

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31 23:00:27 -04:00
Al Viro
ce3b0f8d5c New helper - current_umask()
current->fs->umask is what most of fs_struct users are doing.
Put that into a helper function.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-31 23:00:26 -04:00
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
Jan Blunck
c8e7f449b2 [patch 1/4] vfs: path_{get,put}() cleanups
Here are some more places where path_{get,put}() can be used instead of
dput()/mntput() pair.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-06-23 11:52:29 -04:00
Al Viro
e9baf6e598 [PATCH] return to old errno choice in mkdir() et.al.
In case when both EEXIST and EROFS would apply we used to
return the former in mkdir(2) and friends.  Lest anyone suspects
us of being consistent, in the same situation knfsd gave clients
nfs_erofs...

	ro-bind series had switched the syscall side of things to
returning -EROFS and immediately broke an application - namely,
mkdir -p.  Patch restores the original behaviour...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-16 17:23:18 -04:00
Serge E. Hallyn
08ce5f16ee cgroups: implement device whitelist
Implement a cgroup to track and enforce open and mknod restrictions on device
files.  A device cgroup associates a device access whitelist with each cgroup.
 A whitelist entry has 4 fields.  'type' is a (all), c (char), or b (block).
'all' means it applies to all types and all major and minor numbers.  Major
and minor are either an integer or * for all.  Access is a composition of r
(read), w (write), and m (mknod).

The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'.  A child devcg gets a copy of
the parent.  Admins can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new
entries.  A child cgroup can never receive a device access which is denied its
parent.  However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not
also be removed from the child(ren).

An entry is added using devices.allow, and removed using
devices.deny.  For instance

	echo 'c 1:3 mr' > /cgroups/1/devices.allow

allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
/dev/null.  Doing

	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny

will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.

CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to change permissions or move another task to a new
cgroup.  A cgroup may not be granted more permissions than the cgroup's parent
has.  Any task can move itself between cgroups.  This won't be sufficient, but
we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix may-be-used-uninitialized warning]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Looks-good-to: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
Dave Hansen
4a3fd211cc [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for open()s
This is the first really tricky patch in the series.  It elevates the writer
count on a mount each time a non-special file is opened for write.

We used to do this in may_open(), but Miklos pointed out that __dentry_open()
is used as well to create filps.  This will cover even those cases, while a
call in may_open() would not have.

There is also an elevated count around the vfs_create() call in open_namei().
See the comments for more details, but we need this to fix a 'create, remount,
fail r/w open()' race.

Some filesystems forego the use of normal vfs calls to create
struct files.   Make sure that these users elevate the mnt
writer count because they will get __fput(), and we need
to make sure they're balanced.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19 00:29:25 -04:00
Dave Hansen
9079b1eb17 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: get write access for vfs_rename() callers
This also uses the little helper in the NFS code to make an if() a little bit
less ugly.  We introduced the helper at the beginning of the series.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19 00:25:34 -04:00
Dave Hansen
75c3f29de7 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: write counts for link/symlink
[AV: add missing nfsd pieces]

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19 00:25:34 -04:00
Dave Hansen
463c319726 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: get callers of vfs_mknod/create/mkdir()
This takes care of all of the direct callers of vfs_mknod().
Since a few of these cases also handle normal file creation
as well, this also covers some calls to vfs_create().

So that we don't have to make three mnt_want/drop_write()
calls inside of the switch statement, we move some of its
logic outside of the switch and into a helper function
suggested by Christoph.

This also encapsulates a fix for mknod(S_IFREG) that Miklos
found.

[AV: merged mkdir handling, added missing nfsd pieces]

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19 00:25:34 -04:00
Dave Hansen
0622753b80 [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for rmdir and unlink.
Elevate the write count during the vfs_rmdir() and vfs_unlink().

[AV: merged rmdir and unlink parts, added missing pieces in nfsd]

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19 00:25:33 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
a70e65df88 [PATCH] merge open_namei() and do_filp_open()
open_namei() will, in the future, need to take mount write counts
over its creation and truncation (via may_open()) operations.  It
needs to keep these write counts until any potential filp that is
created gets __fput()'d.

This gets complicated in the error handling and becomes very murky
as to how far open_namei() actually got, and whether or not that
mount write count was taken.  That makes it a bad interface.

All that the current do_filp_open() really does is allocate the
nameidata on the stack, then call open_namei().

So, this merges those two functions and moves filp_open() over
to namei.c so it can be close to its buddy: do_filp_open().  It
also gets a kerneldoc comment in the process.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19 00:25:32 -04:00
Dave Hansen
d57999e152 [PATCH] do namei_flags calculation inside open_namei()
My end goal here is to make sure all users of may_open()
return filps.  This will ensure that we properly release
mount write counts which were taken for the filp in
may_open().

This patch moves the sys_open flags to namei flags
calculation into fs/namei.c.  We'll shortly be moving
the nameidata_to_filp() calls into namei.c, and this
gets the sys_open flags to a place where we can get
at them when we need them.

Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-19 00:25:31 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
7ed7fe5e82 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:
  [PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity
  [PATCH] double iput() on failure exit in hugetlb
  [PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem
  [PATCH] fix up new filp allocators
  [PATCH] check for null vfsmount in dentry_open()
  [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr
  [PATCH] sanitize hppfs
  hppfs pass vfsmount to dentry_open()
  [PATCH] restore export of do_kern_mount()
2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
a6b91919e0 fs: fix kernel-doc notation warnings
Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/.

Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line:
 *	mark_files_ro
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
 *	lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
 *	lease_get_mtime
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line:
 * lookup_one_len:  filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line:
 * bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line:
 * bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line:
 * writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line:
 * writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line:
 * writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device.
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections
Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line:
 * void journal_invalidatepage()

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:36 -07:00
Al Viro
a02f76c34d [PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity
Somebody had put struct nameidata in stack frame of link_path_walk().
Unfortunately, there are certain realities to deal with:
	* It's in the middle of recursion.  Depth is equal to the nesting
depth of symlinks, i.e. up to 8.
	* struct namiedata is, even if one discards the intent junk,
at least 12 pointers + 5 ints.
	* moreover, adding a stack frame is not free in that situation.
	* there are fs methods called on top of that, and they also have
stack footprint.
	* kernel stack is not infinite.

The thing is, even if one chooses to deal with -ESTALE that way (and it's
one hell of an overkill), the only thing that needs to be preserved is
vfsmount + dentry, not the entire struct nameidata.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-03-19 06:55:46 -04:00
Jan Blunck
6ac08c39a1 Use struct path in fs_struct
* Use struct path in fs_struct.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Jan Blunck
5dd784d049 Introduce path_get()
This introduces the symmetric function to path_put() for getting a reference
to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Jan Blunck
09da5916ba Use path_put() in a few places instead of {mnt,d}put()
Use path_put() in a few places instead of {mnt,d}put()

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Jan Blunck
1d957f9bf8 Introduce path_put()
* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
  vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Jan Blunck
4ac9137858 Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}
This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
  <dentry,vfsmount> pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
  struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:

without patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5321639  858418  715768 6895825  6938d1 vmlinux

with patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5320026  858418  715768 6894212  693284 vmlinux

This patch:

Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Jan Blunck
429731b155 Remove path_release_on_umount()
path_release_on_umount() should only be called from sys_umount(). I merged the
function into sys_umount() instead of having in in namei.c.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:32 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
fc9b52cd8f fs: remove fastcall, it is always empty
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Jan Kara
ece95912db inotify: send IN_ATTRIB events when link count changes
Currently, no notification event has been sent when inode's link count
changed.  This is inconvenient for the application in some cases:

Suppose you have the following directory structure

    foo/test
    bar/

and you watch test.  If someone does "mv foo/test bar/", you get event
IN_MOVE_SELF and you know something has happened with the file "test".
However if someone does "ln foo/test bar/test" and "rm foo/test" you get no
inotify event for the file "test" (only directories "foo" and "bar" receive
events).

Furthermore it could be argued that link count belongs to file's metadata and
thus IN_ATTRIB should be sent when it changes.

The following patch implements sending of IN_ATTRIB inotify events when link
count of the inode changes, i.e., when a hardlink to the inode is created or
when it is removed.  This event is sent in addition to all the events sent so
far.  In particular, when a last link to a file is removed, IN_ATTRIB event is
sent in addition to IN_DELETE_SELF event.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
974a9f0b47 Use access mode instead of open flags to determine needed permissions
Way back when (in commit 834f2a4a15, aka
"VFS: Allow the filesystem to return a full file pointer on open intent"
to be exact), Trond changed the open logic to keep track of the original
flags to a file open, in order to pass down the the intent of a dentry
lookup to the low-level filesystem.

However, when doing that reorganization, it changed the meaning of
namei_flags, and thus inadvertently changed the test of access mode for
directories (and RO filesystem) to use the wrong flag.  So fix those
test back to use access mode ("acc_mode") rather than the open flag
("flag").

Issue noticed by Bill Roman at Datalight.

Reported-and-tested-by: Bill Roman <bill.roman@datalight.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-12 14:47:58 -08:00
Al Viro
5a190ae697 [PATCH] pass dentry to audit_inode()/audit_inode_child()
makes caller simpler *and* allows to scan ancestors

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2007-10-21 02:37:18 -04:00
Miklos Szeredi
d139d7ffd0 VFS: allow filesystems to implement atomic open+truncate
Add a new attribute flag ATTR_OPEN, with the meaning: "truncation was
initiated by open() due to the O_TRUNC flag".

This way filesystems wanting to implement truncation within their ->open()
method can ignore such truncate requests.

This is a quick & dirty hack, but it comes for free.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:30 -07:00
Dave Hansen
c7eb26678e r/o bind mounts: give permission() a local 'mnt' variable
First of all, this makes the structure jumping look a little bit cleaner.  So,
this stands alone as a tiny cleanup.  But, we also need 'mnt' by itself a few
more times later in this series, so this isn't _just_ a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
Dave Hansen
b41572e929 r/o bind mounts: rearrange may_open() to be r/o friendly
may_open() calls vfs_permission() before it does checks for IS_RDONLY(inode).
It checks _again_ inside of vfs_permission().

The check inside of vfs_permission() is going away eventually.  With the
mnt_want/drop_write() functions, all of the r/o checks (except for this one)
are consistently done before calling permission().  Because of this, I'd like
to use permission() to hold a debugging check to make sure that the
mnt_want/drop_write() calls are actually being made.

So, to do this:
1. remove the IS_RDONLY() check from permission()
2. enforce that you must mnt_want_write() before
   even calling permission()
3. actually add the debugging check to permission()

We need to rearrange may_open() to do r/o checks before calling permission().
Here's the patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
22590e41cb fix execute checking in permission()
permission() checks that MAY_EXEC is only allowed on regular files if at least
one execute bit is set in the file mode.

generic_permission() already ensures this, so the extra check in permission()
is superfluous.

If the filesystem defines it's own ->permission() the check may still be
needed.  In this case move it after ->permission().  This is needed because
filesystems such as FUSE may need to refresh the inode attributes before
checking permissions.

This check should be moved inside ->permission(), but that's another story.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
40b2ea8397 Clean up duplicate includes in fs/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	fs/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:48 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
eead191153 partially fix up the lookup_one_noperm mess
Try to fix the mess created by sysfs braindamage.

 - refactor code internal to fs/namei.c a little to avoid too much
   duplication:
	o __lookup_hash_kern is renamed back to __lookup_hash
	o the old __lookup_hash goes away, permission checks moves to
	  the two callers
	o useless inline qualifiers on above functions go away
 - lookup_one_len_kern loses it's last argument and is renamed to
   lookup_one_noperm to make it's useage a little more clear
 - added kerneldoc comments to describe lookup_one_len aswell as
   lookup_one_noperm and make it very clear that no one should use
   the latter ever.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:44 -07:00
Nick Piggin
afddba49d1 fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).

[mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
[dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:55 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
f79c20f525 fs: remove path_walk export
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
c4a7808fc3 fs: mark link_path_walk static
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
16f1820028 fs: introduce vfs_path_lookup
Stackable file systems, among others, frequently need to lookup paths or
path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace
(identified by a dentry and a vfsmount).  Currently, such file systems use
lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup
intent along; not passing a lookup intent, for example, can trigger BUG_ON's
when stacking on top of NFSv4.

The first patch introduces a new lookup function to allow lookup starting
from an arbitrary point in the namespace.  This approach has been suggested
by Christoph Hellwig [2].

The second patch changes sunrpc to use vfs_path_lookup.

The third patch changes nfsctl.c to use vfs_path_lookup.

The fourth patch marks link_path_walk static.

The fifth, and last patch, unexports path_walk because it is no longer
unnecessary to call it directly, and using the new vfs_path_lookup is
cleaner.

For example, the following snippet of code, looks up "some/path/component"
in a directory pointed to by parent_{dentry,vfsmnt}:

err = vfs_path_lookup(parent_dentry, parent_vfsmnt,
		      "some/path/component", 0, &nd);
if (!err) {
	/* exits */

	...

	/* once done, release the references */
	path_release(&nd);
} else if (err == -ENOENT) {
	/* doesn't exist */
} else {
	/* other error */
}

VFS functions such as lookup_create can be used on the nameidata structure
to pass the create intent to the file system.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00