kernel/fs/sysfs/inode.c, branch linux-2.6.20.y

[PATCH] sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses

2007-10-17T19:30:40Z

Backport of ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch For regular files in sysfs, sysfs_readdir wants to traverse sysfs_dirent->s_dentry->d_inode->i_ino to get to the inode number. But, the dentry can be reclaimed under memory pressure, and there is no synchronization with readdir. This patch follows Tejun's scheme of allocating and storing an inode number in the new s_ino member of a sysfs_dirent, when dirents are created, and retrieving it from there for readdir, so that the pointer chain doesn't have to be traversed. Tejun's upstream patch uses a new-ish "ida" allocator which brings along some extra complexity; this -stable patch has a brain-dead incrementing counter which does not guarantee uniqueness, but because sysfs doesn't hash inodes as iunique expects, uniqueness wasn't guaranteed today anyway. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure

2006-09-27T15:26:18Z

This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function. Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect) values for i_blksize. [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup] [akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error

2006-09-26T04:08:39Z

Make sysfs_remove_bin_file() void. If it detects an error, printk the file name and call dump_stack(). sysfs_hash_and_remove() now returns an error code indicating its success or failure so that sysfs_remove_bin_file() can know success/failure. Convert the only driver that checked the return value of sysfs_remove_bin_file(). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate the sysfs i_mutex to be a separate class

2006-07-12T19:52:54Z

sysfs has a different i_mutex lock order behavior for i_mutex than the other filesystems; sysfs i_mutex is called in many places with subsystem locks held. At the same time, many of the VFS locking rules do not apply to sysfs at all (cross directory rename for example). To untangle this mess (which gives false positives in lockdep), we're giving sysfs inodes their own class for i_mutex. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark address_space_operations const

2006-06-28T21:59:04Z

Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and prevents people from doing runtime patching. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Steven French Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/sysfs/

2006-03-31T23:18:38Z

this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is cleaner, contains unlikely() and can better optimized away. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] sysfs: kzalloc conversion

2006-03-20T21:42:58Z

this converts fs/sysfs to kzalloc() usage. compile tested with make allyesconfig Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_remove_dir() needs to invalidate the dentry

2006-03-20T21:42:57Z

When calling sysfs_remove_dir() don't allow any further sysfs functions to work for this kobject anymore. This fixes a nasty USB cdc-acm oops on disconnect. Many thanks to Bob Copeland and Paul Fulghum for taking the time to track this down. Cc: Bob Copeland Cc: Paul Fulghum Cc: Maneesh Soni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] capable/capability.h (fs/)

2006-01-12T02:42:13Z

fs: Use where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Tim Schmielau Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

2006-01-09T23:59:24Z

This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar