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Peter Zijlstra
00ef9f7348 lockdep: change a held lock's class
Impact: introduce new lockdep API

Allow to change a held lock's class. Basically the same as the existing
code to change a subclass therefore reuse all that.

The XFS code will be able to use this to annotate their inode locking.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 10:08:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
cb9c34e6d0 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into core/locking 2008-12-04 08:52:14 +01:00
Manfred Spraul
6ff2d39b91 lib/idr.c: fix rcu related race with idr_find
2nd part of the fixes needed for
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11796.

When the idr tree is either grown or shrunk, then the update to the number
of layers and the top pointer were not atomic.  This race caused crashes.

The attached patch fixes that by replicating the layers counter in each
layer, thus idr_find doesn't need idp->layers anymore.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Clement Calmels <cboulte@gmail.com>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 19:55:25 -08:00
Davide Libenzi
7ef9964e6d epoll: introduce resource usage limits
It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface.  Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds.  To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced.  A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:

  max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user

  max_user_watches   = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user

The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM.  As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users.  The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.

This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC).  The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01 19:55:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7ac01108e7 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ
  [libata] pata_rb532_cf: fix signature of the xfer function
  [libata] pata_rb532_cf: fix and rename register definitions
  ata_piix: add borked Tecra M4 to broken suspend list
2008-12-01 11:23:33 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4bc2a9bf8c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IB/mlx4: Fix MTT leakage in resize CQ
  IB/ehca: Fix problem with generated flush work completions
  IB/ehca: Change misleading error message on memory hotplug
  mlx4_core: Save/restore default port IB capability mask
2008-12-01 11:01:54 -08:00
Tejun Heo
ac70a964b0 libata: blacklist Seagate drives which time out FLUSH_CACHE when used with NCQ
Some recent Seagate harddrives have firmware bug which causes FLUSH
CACHE to timeout under certain circumstances if NCQ is being used.
This can be worked around by disabling NCQ and fixed by updating the
firmware.  Implement ATA_HORKAGE_FIRMWARE_UPDATE and blacklist these
devices.

The wiki page has been updated to contain information on this issue.

  http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Known_issues

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-12-01 13:49:27 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
4ec8f077e4 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  Allow architectures to override copy_user_highpage()
  [ARM] pxa/palmtx: misc fixes to use generic GPIO API
  ARM: OMAP: Fixes for suspend / resume GPIO wake-up handling
  [ARM] pxa/corgi: update default config to exclude tosa from being built
  [ARM] pxa/pcm990: use negative number for an invalid GPIO in camera data
  ARM: OMAP: Typo fix for clock_allow_idle
  ARM: OMAP: Remove broken LCD driver for SX1
  [ARM] 5335/1: pxa25x_udc: Fix is_vbus_present to return 1 or 0
  [ARM] pxa/MioA701: bluetooth resume fix
  [ARM] pxa/MioA701: fix memory corruption.
2008-11-30 16:39:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
72244c0e68 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-doc
  genirq: __irq_set_trigger: change pr_warning to pr_debug
  irq: fix typo
  x86: apic honour irq affinity which was set in early boot
  genirq: fix the affinity setting in setup_irq
  genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
2008-11-30 13:06:20 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
96b8936a9e remove __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every
new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another).

Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also
kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after
__ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30 11:00:15 -08:00
Al Viro
02d0e6753d hotplug_memory_notifier section annotation
Same as for hotplug_cpu - we want static notifier_block in there in meminitdata,
to avoid false positives whenever it's used.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30 10:03:38 -08:00
Al Viro
31168481c3 meminit section warnings
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30 10:03:35 -08:00
Jack Morgenstein
9a5aa622dd mlx4_core: Save/restore default port IB capability mask
Commit 7ff93f8b ("mlx4_core: Multiple port type support") introduced
support for different port types.  As part of that support, SET_PORT
is invoked to set the port type during driver startup.  However, as a
side-effect, for IB ports the invocation of this command also sets the
port's capability mask to zero (losing the default value set by FW).

To fix this, get the default ib port capabilities (via a MAD_IFC Port
Info query) during driver startup, and save them for use in the
mlx4_SET_PORT command when setting the port-type to Infiniband.

This patch fixes problems with subnet manager (SM) failover such as
<https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1183>, which occurred
because the IsTrapSupported bit in the capability mask was zeroed.

Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-11-28 21:29:46 -08:00
Russell King
487ff32082 Allow architectures to override copy_user_highpage()
With aliasing VIPT cache support, the ARM implementation of
clear_user_page() and copy_user_page() sets up a temporary kernel space
mapping such that we have the same cache colour as the userspace page.
This avoids having to consider any userspace aliases from this operation.

However, when highmem is enabled, kmap_atomic() have to setup mappings.
The copy_user_highpage() and clear_user_highpage() call these functions
before delegating the copies to copy_user_page() and clear_user_page().

The effect of this is that each of the *_user_highpage() functions setup
their own kmap mapping, followed by the *_user_page() functions setting
up another mapping.  This is rather wasteful.

Thankfully, copy_user_highpage() can be overriden by architectures by
defining __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE.  However, replacement of
clear_user_highpage() is more difficult because its inline definition
is not conditional.  It seems that you're expected to define
__HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_ZEROED_USER_HIGHPAGE and provide a replacement
__alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() implementation instead.

The allocation itself is fine, so we don't want to override that.  What
we really want to do is to override clear_user_highpage() with our own
version which doesn't kmap_atomic() unnecessarily.

Other VIPT architectures (PARISC and SH) would also like to override
this function as well.

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-11-27 23:39:48 +00:00
Randy Dunlap
2ed1cdcf9a irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-doc
Impact: fix kernel-doc build

Fix missing & excess irq.h kernel-doc:

Warning(include/linux/irq.h:182): No description found for parameter 'irq'
Warning(include/linux/irq.h:182): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'affinity_entry' description in 'irq_desc'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 10:52:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9f14416442 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc6' into irq/urgent 2008-11-23 10:52:33 +01:00
Miao Xie
f481891fdc cpuset: update top cpuset's mems after adding a node
After adding a node into the machine, top cpuset's mems isn't updated.

By reviewing the code, we found that the update function

  cpuset_track_online_nodes()

was invoked after node_states[N_ONLINE] changes.  It is wrong because
N_ONLINE just means node has pgdat, and if node has/added memory, we use
N_HIGH_MEMORY.  So, We should invoke the update function after
node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] changes, just like its commit says.

This patch fixes it.  And we use notifier of memory hotplug instead of
direct calling of cpuset_track_online_nodes().

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:58 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
de11defebf reintroduce accept4
Introduce a new accept4() system call.  The addition of this system call
matches analogous changes in 2.6.27 (dup3(), evenfd2(), signalfd4(),
inotify_init1(), epoll_create1(), pipe2()) which added new system calls
that differed from analogous traditional system calls in adding a flags
argument that can be used to access additional functionality.

The accept4() system call is exactly the same as accept(), except that
it adds a flags bit-mask argument.  Two flags are initially implemented.
(Most of the new system calls in 2.6.27 also had both of these flags.)

SOCK_CLOEXEC causes the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag to be enabled
for the new file descriptor returned by accept4().  This is a useful
security feature to avoid leaking information in a multithreaded
program where one thread is doing an accept() at the same time as
another thread is doing a fork() plus exec().  More details here:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html "Secure File Descriptor Handling",
Ulrich Drepper).

The other flag is SOCK_NONBLOCK, which causes the O_NONBLOCK flag
to be enabled on the new open file description created by accept4().
(This flag is merely a convenience, saving the use of additional calls
fcntl(F_GETFL) and fcntl (F_SETFL) to achieve the same result.

Here's a test program.  Works on x86-32.  Should work on x86-64, but
I (mtk) don't have a system to hand to test with.

It tests accept4() with each of the four possible combinations of
SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK set/clear in 'flags', and verifies
that the appropriate flags are set on the file descriptor/open file
description returned by accept4().

I tested Ulrich's patch in this thread by applying against 2.6.28-rc2,
and it passes according to my test program.

/* test_accept4.c

  Copyright (C) 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
       <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

  Licensed under the GNU GPLv2 or later.
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define PORT_NUM 33333

#define die(msg) do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)

/**********************************************************************/

/* The following is what we need until glibc gets a wrapper for
  accept4() */

/* Flags for socket(), socketpair(), accept4() */
#ifndef SOCK_CLOEXEC
#define SOCK_CLOEXEC    O_CLOEXEC
#endif
#ifndef SOCK_NONBLOCK
#define SOCK_NONBLOCK   O_NONBLOCK
#endif

#ifdef __x86_64__
#define SYS_accept4 288
#elif __i386__
#define USE_SOCKETCALL 1
#define SYS_ACCEPT4 18
#else
#error "Sorry -- don't know the syscall # on this architecture"
#endif

static int
accept4(int fd, struct sockaddr *sockaddr, socklen_t *addrlen, int flags)
{
   printf("Calling accept4(): flags = %x", flags);
   if (flags != 0) {
       printf(" (");
       if (flags & SOCK_CLOEXEC)
           printf("SOCK_CLOEXEC");
       if ((flags & SOCK_CLOEXEC) && (flags & SOCK_NONBLOCK))
           printf(" ");
       if (flags & SOCK_NONBLOCK)
           printf("SOCK_NONBLOCK");
       printf(")");
   }
   printf("\n");

#if USE_SOCKETCALL
   long args[6];

   args[0] = fd;
   args[1] = (long) sockaddr;
   args[2] = (long) addrlen;
   args[3] = flags;

   return syscall(SYS_socketcall, SYS_ACCEPT4, args);
#else
   return syscall(SYS_accept4, fd, sockaddr, addrlen, flags);
#endif
}

/**********************************************************************/

static int
do_test(int lfd, struct sockaddr_in *conn_addr,
       int closeonexec_flag, int nonblock_flag)
{
   int connfd, acceptfd;
   int fdf, flf, fdf_pass, flf_pass;
   struct sockaddr_in claddr;
   socklen_t addrlen;

   printf("=======================================\n");

   connfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (connfd == -1)
       die("socket");
   if (connect(connfd, (struct sockaddr *) conn_addr,
               sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1)
       die("connect");

   addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
   acceptfd = accept4(lfd, (struct sockaddr *) &claddr, &addrlen,
                      closeonexec_flag | nonblock_flag);
   if (acceptfd == -1) {
       perror("accept4()");
       close(connfd);
       return 0;
   }

   fdf = fcntl(acceptfd, F_GETFD);
   if (fdf == -1)
       die("fcntl:F_GETFD");
   fdf_pass = ((fdf & FD_CLOEXEC) != 0) ==
              ((closeonexec_flag & SOCK_CLOEXEC) != 0);
   printf("Close-on-exec flag is %sset (%s); ",
           (fdf & FD_CLOEXEC) ? "" : "not ",
           fdf_pass ? "OK" : "failed");

   flf = fcntl(acceptfd, F_GETFL);
   if (flf == -1)
       die("fcntl:F_GETFD");
   flf_pass = ((flf & O_NONBLOCK) != 0) ==
              ((nonblock_flag & SOCK_NONBLOCK) !=0);
   printf("nonblock flag is %sset (%s)\n",
           (flf & O_NONBLOCK) ? "" : "not ",
           flf_pass ? "OK" : "failed");

   close(acceptfd);
   close(connfd);

   printf("Test result: %s\n", (fdf_pass && flf_pass) ? "PASS" : "FAIL");
   return fdf_pass && flf_pass;
}

static int
create_listening_socket(int port_num)
{
   struct sockaddr_in svaddr;
   int lfd;
   int optval;

   memset(&svaddr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
   svaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
   svaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
   svaddr.sin_port = htons(port_num);

   lfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (lfd == -1)
       die("socket");

   optval = 1;
   if (setsockopt(lfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &optval,
                  sizeof(optval)) == -1)
       die("setsockopt");

   if (bind(lfd, (struct sockaddr *) &svaddr,
            sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1)
       die("bind");

   if (listen(lfd, 5) == -1)
       die("listen");

   return lfd;
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   struct sockaddr_in conn_addr;
   int lfd;
   int port_num;
   int passed;

   passed = 1;

   port_num = (argc > 1) ? atoi(argv[1]) : PORT_NUM;

   memset(&conn_addr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
   conn_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
   conn_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
   conn_addr.sin_port = htons(port_num);

   lfd = create_listening_socket(port_num);

   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, 0, 0))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, 0, SOCK_NONBLOCK))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, SOCK_CLOEXEC, SOCK_NONBLOCK))
       passed = 0;

   close(lfd);

   exit(passed ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE);
}

[mtk.manpages@gmail.com: rewrote changelog, updated test program]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7f0f598a00 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: hold extra reference to bio in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  relay: fix cpu offline problem
  Release old elevator on change elevator
  block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash
  block/md: fix md autodetection
  block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
  block: fix add_partition() error path
2008-11-18 08:07:51 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
72b51a6b4d Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  kernel/profile.c: fix section mismatch warning
  function tracing: fix wrong pos computing when read buffer has been fulfilled
  tracing: fix mmiotrace resizing crash
  ring-buffer: no preempt for sched_clock()
  ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch
2008-11-18 08:06:35 -08:00
Tejun Heo
ba32929a91 block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure.  This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
847e9170c7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  rtnetlink: propagate error from dev_change_flags in do_setlink()
  isdn: remove extra byteswap in isdn_net_ciscohdlck_slarp_send_reply
  Phonet: refuse to send bigger than MTU packets
  e1000e: fix IPMI traffic
  e1000e: fix warn_on reload after phy_id error
  phy: fix phy address bug
  e100: fix dma error in direction for mapping
  igb: use dev_printk instead of printk
  qla3xxx: Cleanup: Fix link print statements.
  igb: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
  e1000: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
  e1000e: Use device_set_wakeup_enable
  via-velocity: enable perfect filtering for multicast packets
  phy: Add support for Marvell 88E1118 PHY
  mlx4_en: Pause parameters per port
  phylib: fix premature freeing of struct mii_bus
  atl1: Do not enumerate options unsupported by chip
  atl1e: fix broken multicast by removing unnecessary crc inversion
  gianfar: Fix DMA unmap invocations
  net/ucc_geth: Fix oops in uec_get_ethtool_stats()
  ...
2008-11-17 07:53:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b42ccbc521 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
  HID: don't grab devices with no input
  HID: fix radio-mr800 hidquirks
  HID: fix kworld fm700 radio hidquirks
  HID: fix start/stop cycle in usbhid driver
  HID: use single threaded work queue for hid_compat
  HID: map macbook keys for "Expose" and "Dashboard"
  HID: support for new unibody macbooks
  HID: fix locking in hidraw_open()
2008-11-15 19:02:48 -08:00
Al Viro
8f7b0ba1c8 Fix inotify watch removal/umount races
Inotify watch removals suck violently.

To kick the watch out we need (in this order) inode->inotify_mutex and
ih->mutex.  That's fine if we have a hold on inode; however, for all
other cases we need to make damn sure we don't race with umount.  We can
*NOT* just grab a reference to a watch - inotify_unmount_inodes() will
happily sail past it and we'll end with reference to inode potentially
outliving its superblock.

Ideally we just want to grab an active reference to superblock if we
can; that will make sure we won't go into inotify_umount_inodes() until
we are done.  Cleanup is just deactivate_super().

However, that leaves a messy case - what if we *are* racing with
umount() and active references to superblock can't be acquired anymore?
We can bump ->s_count, grab ->s_umount, which will almost certainly wait
until the superblock is shut down and the watch in question is pining
for fjords.  That's fine, but there is a problem - we might have hit the
window between ->s_active getting to 0 / ->s_count - below S_BIAS (i.e.
the moment when superblock is past the point of no return and is heading
for shutdown) and the moment when deactivate_super() acquires
->s_umount.

We could just do drop_super() yield() and retry, but that's rather
antisocial and this stuff is luser-triggerable.  OTOH, having grabbed
->s_umount and having found that we'd got there first (i.e.  that
->s_root is non-NULL) we know that we won't race with
inotify_umount_inodes().

So we could grab a reference to watch and do the rest as above, just
with drop_super() instead of deactivate_super(), right? Wrong.  We had
to drop ih->mutex before we could grab ->s_umount.  So the watch
could've been gone already.

That still can be dealt with - we need to save watch->wd, do idr_find()
and compare its result with our pointer.  If they match, we either have
the damn thing still alive or we'd lost not one but two races at once,
the watch had been killed and a new one got created with the same ->wd
at the same address.  That couldn't have happened in inotify_destroy(),
but inotify_rm_wd() could run into that.  Still, "new one got created"
is not a problem - we have every right to kill it or leave it alone,
whatever's more convenient.

So we can use idr_find(...) == watch && watch->inode->i_sb == sb as
"grab it and kill it" check.  If it's been our original watch, we are
fine, if it's a newcomer - nevermind, just pretend that we'd won the
race and kill the fscker anyway; we are safe since we know that its
superblock won't be going away.

And yes, this is far beyond mere "not very pretty"; so's the entire
concept of inotify to start with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-15 12:26:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
537a2f889a Merge branch 'sh/for-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'sh/for-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  serial: sh-sci: Reorder the SCxTDR write after the TDxE clear.
  sh: __copy_user function can corrupt the stack in case of exception
  sh: Fixed the TMU0 reload value on resume
  sh: Don't factor in PAGE_OFFSET for valid_phys_addr_range() check.
  sh: early printk port type fix
  i2c: fix i2c-sh_mobile rx underrun
  sh: Provide a sane valid_phys_addr_range() to prevent TLB reset with PMB.
  usb: r8a66597-hcd: fix wrong data access in SuperH on-chip USB
  fix sci type for SH7723
  serial: sh-sci: fix cannot work SH7723 SCIFA
  sh: Handle fixmap TLB eviction more coherently.
2008-11-15 12:10:32 -08:00