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  1. Jun 10, 2009
    • Ian Kent's avatar
      autofs4: remove hashed check in validate_wait() · 463aea1a
      Ian Kent authored 
      

The recent ->lookup() deadlock correction required the directory inode
mutex to be dropped while waiting for expire completion.  We were
concerned about side effects from this change and one has been identified.

I saw several error messages.

They cause autofs to become quite confused and don't really point to the
actual problem.

Things like:

handle_packet_missing_direct:1376: can't find map entry for (43,1827932)

which is usually totally fatal (although in this case it wouldn't be
except that I treat is as such because it normally is).

do_mount_direct: direct trigger not valid or already mounted
/test/nested/g3c/s1/ss1

which is recoverable, however if this problem is at play it can cause
autofs to become quite confused as to the dependencies in the mount tree
because mount triggers end up mounted multiple times.  It's hard to
accurately check for this over mounting case and automount shouldn't need
to if the kernel module is doing its job.

There was one other message, similar in consequence of this last one but I
can't locate a log example just now.

When checking if a mount has already completed prior to adding a new mount
request to the wait queue we check if the dentry is hashed and, if so, if
it is a mount point.  But, if a mount successfully completed while we
slept on the wait queue mutex the dentry must exist for the mount to have
completed so the test is not really needed.

Mounts can also be done on top of a global root dentry, so for the above
case, where a mount request completes and the wait queue entry has already
been removed, the hashed test returning false can cause an incorrect
callback to the daemon.  Also, d_mountpoint() is not sufficient to check
if a mount has completed for the multi-mount case when we don't have a
real mount at the base of the tree.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      463aea1a
    • Mike Frysinger's avatar
      shm: fix unused warnings on nommu · 586c7e6a
      Mike Frysinger authored 
      The massive nommu update (8feae131

) resulted in these warnings:
ipc/shm.c: In function `sys_shmdt':
ipc/shm.c:974: warning: unused variable `size'
ipc/shm.c:972: warning: unused variable `next'

Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      586c7e6a
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  9. Jun 06, 2009
    • Al Viro's avatar
      ext3/4 with synchronous writes gets wedged by Postfix · 72a43d63
      Al Viro authored 
      

OK, that's probably the easiest way to do that, as much as I don't like it...
Since iget() et.al. will not accept I_FREEING (will wait to go away
and restart), and since we'd better have serialization between new/free
on fs data structures anyway, we can afford simply skipping I_FREEING
et.al. in insert_inode_locked().

We do that from new_inode, so it won't race with free_inode in any interesting
ways and it won't race with iget (of any origin; nfsd or in case of fs
corruption a lookup) since both still will wait for I_LOCK.

Reviewed-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: default avatarDavid Watson <dbwatson@ukfsn.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      72a43d63
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      Fix nobh_truncate_page() to not pass stack garbage to get_block() · 460bcf57
      Theodore Ts'o authored 
      

The nobh_truncate_page() function is used by ext2, exofs, and jfs.  Of
these three, only ext2 and jfs's get_block() function pays attention
to bh->b_size --- which is normally always the filesystem blocksize
except when the get_block() function is called by either
mpage_readpage(), mpage_readpages(), or the direct I/O routines in
fs/direct_io.c.

Unfortunately, nobh_truncate_page() does not initialize map_bh before
calling the filesystem-supplied get_block() function.  So ext2 and jfs
will try to calculate the number of blocks to map by taking stack
garbage and shifting it left by inode->i_blkbits.  This should be
*mostly* harmless (except the filesystem will do some unnneeded work)
unless the stack garbage is less than filesystem's blocksize, in which
case maxblocks will be zero, and the attempt to find out whether or
not the filesystem has a hole at a given logical block will fail, and
the page cache entry might not get zero'ed out.

Also if the stack garbage in in map_bh->state happens to have the
BH_Mapped bit set, there could be an attempt to call readpage() on a
non-existent page, which could cause nobh_truncate_page() to return an
error when it should not.

Fix this by initializing map_bh->state and map_bh->size.

Fortunately, it's probably fairly unlikely that ext2 and jfs users
mount with nobh these days.

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      460bcf57
    • Alan Cox's avatar
      [libata] pata_ali: Use IGN_SIMPLEX · a3cb900c
      Alan Cox authored 
      

Some ALi devices report simplex if they have been disabled and re-enabled, and
restoring the byte does not work. Ignore it - the needed supporting logic is
already present for the SATA ULi ports.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
      a3cb900c
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable · 064e38aa
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: Fix oops and use after free during space balancing
  Btrfs: set device->total_disk_bytes when adding new device
      064e38aa