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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Qinghuang Feng
5cec56deb6 [PATCH] fs/dcache.c: update comment of d_validate()
Parameters @hash and @len have been removed since 2.4.3,
now just to delete them.

Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 05:13:24 -04:00
Dan Williams
0e55a7cca4 [RFC PATCH] touch_mnt_namespace when the mount flags change
Daemons that need to be launched while the rootfs is read-only can now
poll /proc/mounts to be notified when their O_RDWR requests may no
longer end in EROFS.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2008-10-23 05:13:23 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
91efc167d0 [PATCH] reiserfs: add missing llseek method
Reiserfs currently doesn't set a llseek method for regular files, which
means it will fall back to default_llseek.  This means no one can seek
beyond 2 Gigabytes on reiserfs, and that there's not protection vs
the i_size updates from writers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-10-23 05:13:22 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
3222a3e55f [PATCH] fix ->llseek for more directories
With this patch all directory fops instances that have a readdir
that doesn't take the BKL are switched to generic_file_llseek.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-10-23 05:13:21 -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
8f3dfaa5ba [PATCH vfs-2.6 4/6] vfs: remove unnecessary fsnotify_d_instantiate()
This calls d_move(), so fsnotify_d_instantiate() is unnecessary like
rename path.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23 05:13:18 -04:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
360da90029 [PATCH vfs-2.6 3/6] vfs: add __d_instantiate() helper
This adds __d_instantiate() for users which is already taking
dcache_lock, and replace with it.

The part of d_add_ci() isn't equivalent. But it should be needed
fsnotify_d_instantiate() actually, because the path is to add the
inode to negative dentry.  fsnotify_d_instantiate() should be called
after change from negative to positive.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
2008-10-23 05:13:17 -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
9fbb76ce0f [PATCH] get rid of on-stack dentry in udf
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:15 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ad76cbc63b [PATCH 2/2] anondev: switch to IDA
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 05:13:14 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6de24f0ed0 [PATCH 1/2] anondev: init IDR statically
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-23 05:13:13 -04:00
David Woodhouse
8966c5e0fc [JFFS2] Use d_splice_alias() not d_add() in jffs2_lookup()
Now that JFFS2 can be exported by NFS, we need to get this right.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:12 -04:00
David Woodhouse
c002a6c797 [PATCH] Optimise NFS readdir hack slightly.
Avoid calling the underlying ->readdir() again when we reached the end
already; keep going round the loop only if we stopped due to our own
buffer being full.

[AV: tidy the things up a bit, while we are there]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:11 -04:00
Al Viro
53c9c5c0e3 [PATCH] prepare vfs_readdir() callers to returning filldir result
It's not the final state, but it allows moving ->readdir() instances
to passing filldir return value to caller of vfs_readdir().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:10 -04:00
Al Viro
a9885444f7 [PATCH] get rid of on-stack dentry in ext2_get_parent()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:09 -04:00
Al Viro
734711abac [PATCH] get rid of on-stack fake dentry in ext3_get_parent()
Better pass parent and qstr to ext3_find_entry() explicitly than
use such kludges, especially since the stack footprint is nasty
enough and we have every chance to be deep in call chain.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:08 -04:00
David Woodhouse
5f556aab90 [JFFS2] Reinstate NFS exportability
Now that the readdir/lookup deadlock issues have been dealt with, we can
export JFFS2 file systems again.

(For now, you have to specify fsid manually; we should add a method to
the export_ops to handle that too.)

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:07 -04:00
David Woodhouse
d88f1833fc [PATCH] Remove XFS buffered readdir hack
Now that we've moved the readdir hack to the nfsd code, we can
remove the local version from the XFS code.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:06 -04:00
David Woodhouse
14f7dd6320 [PATCH] Copy XFS readdir hack into nfsd code.
Some file systems with their own internal locking have problems with the
way that nfsd calls the ->lookup() method from within a filldir function
called from their ->readdir() method. The recursion back into the file
system code can cause deadlock.

XFS has a fairly hackish solution to this which involves doing the
readdir() into a locally-allocated buffer, then going back through it
calling the filldir function afterwards. It's not ideal, but it works.

It's particularly suboptimal because XFS does this for local file
systems too, where it's completely unnecessary.

Copy this hack into the NFS code where it can be used only for NFS
export. In response to feedback, use it unconditionally rather than only
for the affected file systems.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:05 -04:00
David Woodhouse
2628b76636 [PATCH] Factor out nfsd_do_readdir() into its own function
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:04 -04:00
Al Viro
f3f8e17571 [PATCH] reduce the stack footprint of exportfs_decode_fh()
no need to have _two_ 256-byte arrays on stack...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:03 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
9308a6128d [PATCH] kill d_alloc_anon
Remove d_alloc_anon now that no users are left.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:02 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
440037287c [PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias
Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:01 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
4ea3ada295 [PATCH] new helper: d_obtain_alias
The calling conventions of d_alloc_anon are rather unfortunate for all
users, and it's name is not very descriptive either.

Add d_obtain_alias as a new exported helper that drops the inode
reference in the failure case, too and allows to pass-through NULL
pointers and inodes to allow for tail-calls in the export operations.

Incidentally this helper already existed as a private function in
libfs.c as exportfs_d_alloc so kill that one and switch the callers
to d_obtain_alias.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:13:00 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
3a8cff4f02 [PATCH] generic_file_llseek tidyups
Add kerneldoc for generic_file_llseek and generic_file_llseek_unlocked,
use sane variable names and unclutter the code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:59 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
a518ab9329 [PATCH] tidy up chrdev_open
Use a single goto label for chrdev_put + return error cases.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:59 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
ca30bc9952 [PATCH] hpfs: cleanup ->setattr
Reformat hpfs_notify_change to standard kernel style to make it readable
and rename it to hpfs_setattr as that's what the method is called.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:58 -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
421748ecde [PATCH] assorted path_lookup() -> kern_path() conversions
more nameidata eviction

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:52 -04:00
Al Viro
a63bb99660 [PATCH] switch nfsd to kern_path()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:51 -04:00
Al Viro
c1a2a4756d [PATCH] sanitize svc_export_parse()
clean up the exit paths, get rid of nameidata

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:50 -04:00
Al Viro
8264613def [PATCH] switch quota_on-related stuff to kern_path()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 05:12:44 -04:00
Al Viro
0a0d8a4675 [PATCH] no need for noinline stuff in fs/namespace.c anymore
Stack footprint from hell had been due to many struct nameidata in there.
No more.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 03:34:22 -04:00
Al Viro
2d92ab3c62 [PATCH] finally get rid of nameidata in namespace.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-23 03:34:20 -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
Paul Mundt
2515ddc6db binfmt_elf_fdpic: Update for cputime changes.
Commit f06febc96b ("timers: fix itimer/
many thread hang") introduced a new task_cputime interface and
subsequently only converted binfmt_elf over to it.  This results in the
build for binfmt_elf_fdpic blowing up given that p->signal->{u,s}time
have disappeared from underneath us.

Apply the same trivial fix from binfmt_elf to binfmt_elf_fdpic.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 20:17:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9301975ec2 Merge branch 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
This merges branches irq/genirq, irq/sparseirq-v4, timers/hpet-percpu
and x86/uv.

The sparseirq branch is just preliminary groundwork: no sparse IRQs are
actually implemented by this tree anymore - just the new APIs are added
while keeping the old way intact as well (the new APIs map 1:1 to
irq_desc[]).  The 'real' sparse IRQ support will then be a relatively
small patch ontop of this - with a v2.6.29 merge target.

* 'genirq-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (178 commits)
  genirq: improve include files
  intr_remapping: fix typo
  io_apic: make irq_mis_count available on 64-bit too
  genirq: fix name space collisions of nr_irqs in arch/*
  genirq: fix name space collision of nr_irqs in autoprobe.c
  genirq: use iterators for irq_desc loops
  proc: fixup irq iterator
  genirq: add reverse iterator for irq_desc
  x86: move ack_bad_irq() to irq.c
  x86: unify show_interrupts() and proc helpers
  x86: cleanup show_interrupts
  genirq: cleanup the sparseirq modifications
  genirq: remove artifacts from sparseirq removal
  genirq: revert dynarray
  genirq: remove irq_to_desc_alloc
  genirq: remove sparse irq code
  genirq: use inline function for irq_to_desc
  genirq: consolidate nr_irqs and for_each_irq_desc()
  x86: remove sparse irq from Kconfig
  genirq: define nr_irqs for architectures with GENERIC_HARDIRQS=n
  ...
2008-10-20 13:23:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
99ebcf8285 Merge branch 'v28-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'v28-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
  fix documentation of sysrq-q really
  Fix documentation of sysrq-q
  timer_list: add base address to clock base
  timer_list: print cpu number of clockevents device
  timer_list: print real timer address
  NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()
  NOHZ: split tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()
  NOHZ: unify the nohz function calls in irq_enter()
  timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
  timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v3
  ntp: improve adjtimex frequency rounding
  timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update
  ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep
  hrtimer: reorder struct hrtimer to save 8 bytes on 64bit builds
  posix-timers: lock_timer: make it readable
  posix-timers: lock_timer: kill the bogus ->it_id check
  posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value
  posix-timers: sys_timer_create: cleanup the error handling
  posix-timers: move the initialization of timer->sigq from send to create path
  posix-timers: sys_timer_create: simplify and s/tasklist/rcu/
  ...

Fix trivial conflicts due to sysrq-q description clahes in
Documentation/sysrq.txt and drivers/char/sysrq.c
2008-10-20 13:19:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d9a8a47d6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: implement nonseekable open
  fuse: add include protectors
  fuse: config description improvement
  fuse: add missing fuse_request_free
  fuse: fix SEEK_END incorrectness
2008-10-20 12:53:27 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6da0b38f44 fs/Kconfig: move ext2, ext3, ext4, JBD, JBD2 out
Use fs/*/Kconfig more, which is good because everything related to one
filesystem is in one place and fs/Kconfig is quite fat.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 11:43:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
45e4a24f7b Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: (26 commits)
  9p: add more conservative locking
  9p: fix oops in protocol stat parsing error path.
  9p: fix device file handling
  9p: Improve debug support
  9p: eliminate depricated conv functions
  9p: rework client code to use new protocol support functions
  9p: remove unnecessary tag field from p9_req_t structure
  9p: remove 9p fcall debug prints
  9p: add new protocol support code
  9p: encapsulate version function
  9p: move dirread to fs layer
  9p: adjust 9p vfs write operation
  9p: move readn meta-function from client to fs layer
  9p: consolidate read/write functions
  9p: drop broken unused error path from p9_conn_create()
  9p: make rpc code common and rework flush code
  9p: use the rcall structure passed in the request in trans_fd read_work
  9p: apply common request code to trans_fd
  9p: apply common tagpool handling to trans_fd
  9p: move request management to client code
  ...
2008-10-20 09:39:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
52c6738b7f Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  NFS: use correct fs type for v4 submounts and referrals
  Make nfs_file_cred more robust.
  NFS: Enable NFSv4 callback server to listen on AF_INET6 sockets
2008-10-20 09:39:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
396b122f6a Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  UBIFS: fix ubifs_compress commentary
  UBIFS: amend printk
  UBIFS: do not read unnecessary bytes when unpacking bits
  UBIFS: check buffer length when scanning for LPT nodes
  UBIFS: correct condition to eliminate unecessary assignment
  UBIFS: add more debugging messages for LPT
  UBIFS: fix bulk-read handling uptodate pages
  UBIFS: improve garbage collection
  UBIFS: allow for sync_fs when read-only
  UBIFS: commit on sync_fs
  UBIFS: correct comment for commit_on_unmount
  UBIFS: update dbg_dump_inode
  UBIFS: fix commentary
  UBIFS: fix races in bit-fields
  UBIFS: ensure data read beyond i_size is zeroed out correctly
  UBIFS: correct key comparison
  UBIFS: use bit-fields when possible
  UBIFS: check data CRC when in error state
  UBIFS: improve znode splitting rules
  UBIFS: add no_chk_data_crc mount option
  ...
2008-10-20 09:19:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2be508d847 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (69 commits)
  Revert "[MTD] m25p80.c code cleanup"
  [MTD] [NAND] GPIO driver depends on ARM... for now.
  [MTD] [NAND] sh_flctl: fix compile error
  [MTD] [NOR] AT49BV6416 has swapped erase regions
  [MTD] [NAND] GPIO NAND flash driver
  [MTD] cmdlineparts documentation change - explain where mtd-id comes from
  [MTD] cfi_cmdset_0002.c: Add Macronix CFI V1.0 TopBottom detection
  [MTD] [NAND] Fix compilation warnings in drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c
  [JFFS2] Write buffer offset adjustment for NOR-ECC (Sibley) flash
  [MTD] mtdoops: Fix a bug where block may not be erased
  [MTD] mtdoops: Add a magic number to logged kernel oops
  [MTD] mtdoops: Fix an off by one error
  [JFFS2] Correct parameter names of jffs2_compress() in comments
  [MTD] [NAND] sh_flctl: add support for Renesas SuperH FLCTL
  [MTD] [NAND] Bug on atmel_nand HW ECC : OOB info not correctly written
  [MTD] [MAPS] Remove unused variable after ROM API cleanup.
  [MTD] m25p80.c extended jedec support (v2)
  [MTD] remove unused mtd parameter in of_mtd_parse_partitions()
  [MTD] [NAND] remove dead Kconfig associated with !CONFIG_PPC_MERGE
  [MTD] [NAND] driver extension to support NAND on TQM85xx modules
  ...
2008-10-20 09:03:12 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
bb26b963d8 fs/Kconfig: move CIFS out
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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>
2008-10-20 08:52:42 -07:00
Simon Horman
85a0ee342e kdump: add is_vmcore_usable() and vmcore_unusable()
The usage of elfcorehdr_addr has changed recently such that being set to
ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX is used by is_kdump_kernel() to indicate if the code is
executing in a kernel executed as a crash kernel.

However, arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c:reserve_elfcorehdr will rest
elfcorehdr_addr to ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX on error, which means any subsequent
calls to is_kdump_kernel() will return 0, even though they should return
1.

Ok, at this point in time there are no subsequent calls, but I think its
fair to say that there is ample scope for error or at the very least
confusion.

This patch add an extra state, ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR, which indicates that
elfcorehdr_addr was passed on the command line, and thus execution is
taking place in a crashdump kernel, but vmcore can't be used for some
reason.  This is tested for using is_vmcore_usable() and set using
vmcore_unusable().  A subsequent patch makes use of this new code.

To summarise, the states that elfcorehdr_addr can now be in are as follows:

ELFCORE_ADDR_MAX: not a crashdump kernel
ELFCORE_ADDR_ERR: crashdump kernel but vmcore is unusable
any other value:  crash dump kernel and vmcore is usable

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:52:40 -07:00