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  1. Oct 16, 2007
  2. Oct 11, 2007
    • Denis V. Lunev's avatar
      [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious · cd40b7d3
      Denis V. Lunev authored
      
      This patch make processing netlink user -> kernel messages synchronious.
      This change was inspired by the talk with Alexey Kuznetsov about current
      netlink messages processing. He says that he was badly wrong when introduced 
      asynchronious user -> kernel communication.
      
      The call netlink_unicast is the only path to send message to the kernel
      netlink socket. But, unfortunately, it is also used to send data to the
      user.
      
      Before this change the user message has been attached to the socket queue
      and sk->sk_data_ready was called. The process has been blocked until all
      pending messages were processed. The bad thing is that this processing
      may occur in the arbitrary process context.
      
      This patch changes nlk->data_ready callback to get 1 skb and force packet
      processing right in the netlink_unicast.
      
      Kernel -> user path in netlink_unicast remains untouched.
      
      EINTR processing for in netlink_run_queue was changed. It forces rtnl_lock
      drop, but the process remains in the cycle until the message will be fully
      processed. So, there is no need to use this kludges now.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDenis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarAlexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      cd40b7d3
  3. Oct 10, 2007
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink · b4b51029
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      
      Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
      this includes the controlling kernel sockets.
      
      This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
      to only support the initial network namespace.  Request
      by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
      As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
      that netlink protocol compiled in.
      
      As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
      namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
      to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.
      
      The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
      at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      b4b51029
  4. Aug 31, 2007
  5. Aug 23, 2007
    • Ryusuke Konishi's avatar
      eCryptfs: fix lookup error for special files · df068464
      Ryusuke Konishi authored
      
      When ecryptfs_lookup() is called against special files, eCryptfs generates
      the following errors because it tries to treat them like regular eCryptfs
      files.
      
      Error opening lower file for lower_dentry [0xffff810233a6f150], lower_mnt [0xffff810235bb4c80], and flags [0x8000]
      Error opening lower_file to read header region
      Error attempting to read the [user.ecryptfs] xattr from the lower file; return value = [-95]
      Valid metadata not found in header region or xattr region; treating file as unencrypted
      
      For instance, the problem can be reproduced by the steps below.
      
        # mkdir /root/crypt /mnt/crypt
        # mount -t ecryptfs /root/crypt /mnt/crypt
        # mknod /mnt/crypt/c0 c 0 0
        # umount /mnt/crypt
        # mount -t ecryptfs /root/crypt /mnt/crypt
        # ls -l /mnt/crypt
      
      This patch fixes it by adding a check similar to directories and
      symlinks.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Acked-by: default avatarMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      df068464
  6. Aug 11, 2007
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  9. Jul 17, 2007
    • Mika Kukkonen's avatar
      Couple fixes to fs/ecryptfs/inode.c · c381bfcf
      Mika Kukkonen authored
      
      Following was uncovered by compiling the kernel with '-W' flag:
      
        CC [M]  fs/ecryptfs/inode.o
      fs/ecryptfs/inode.c: In function ‘ecryptfs_lookup’:
      fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:304: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
      fs/ecryptfs/inode.c: In function ‘ecryptfs_symlink’:
      fs/ecryptfs/inode.c:486: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
      
      Function ecryptfs_encode_filename() can return -ENOMEM, so change the
      variables to plain int, as in the first case the only real use actually
      expects int, and in latter case there is no use beoynd the error check.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMika Kukkonen <mikukkon@iki.fi>
      Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c381bfcf
  10. Jul 11, 2007
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner · 7b595756
      Tejun Heo authored
      sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
      deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
      so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
      often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
      accessing removed modules.
      
      This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
      this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
      backing module from being unloaded.
      
      For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
      following message.
      
        http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
      
      
      
      (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
      merge things properly.)
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
      Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      7b595756
  11. Jul 10, 2007
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  14. May 21, 2007
    • Alexey Dobriyan's avatar
      Detach sched.h from mm.h · e8edc6e0
      Alexey Dobriyan authored
      
      First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
      function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
      mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
      
      This patch
      a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
      b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
      c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
      d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
      e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
         getting them indirectly
      
      Net result is:
      a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
         they don't need sched.h
      b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
         on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
         after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
      
      Cross-compile tested on
      
      	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
      	alpha alpha-up
      	arm
      	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
      	ia64 ia64-up
      	m68k
      	mips
      	parisc parisc-up
      	powerpc powerpc-up
      	s390 s390-up
      	sparc sparc-up
      	sparc64 sparc64-up
      	um-x86_64
      	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
      
      as well as my two usual configs.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e8edc6e0
  15. May 17, 2007
  16. May 08, 2007
  17. May 07, 2007
    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag · 50953fe9
      Christoph Lameter authored
      
      I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
      SLAB.
      
      I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
      to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
      performed before each freeing of an object.
      
      I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
      before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
      manipulation of the object.
      
      Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
      compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
      handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
      SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
      in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
      use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
      same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).
      
      There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
      clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
      pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.
      
      This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
      unimplemented flags from SLUB.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      50953fe9
    • Nick Piggin's avatar
      mm: make read_cache_page synchronous · 6fe6900e
      Nick Piggin authored
      
      Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
      us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.
      
      I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
      possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
      ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
      block2mtd.  All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
      with a !uptodate page.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6fe6900e
  18. May 03, 2007
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  24. Feb 16, 2007
  25. Feb 14, 2007
    • Tim Schmielau's avatar
      [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h · cd354f1a
      Tim Schmielau authored
      
      After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
      recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
      There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
      anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
      macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
      course of cleaning it up.
      
      To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
      removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.
      
      Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
      arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
      allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
      configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
      introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
      by unnecessarily included header files).
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
      Acked-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      cd354f1a
  26. Feb 12, 2007
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