13896 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Oleg Drokin
0112fc2229 Separate out common fstatat code into vfs_fstatat
This is a version incorporating Christoph's suggestion.

Separate out common *fstatat functionality into a single function
instead of duplicating it all over the code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:51 -04:00
Li Zefan
fd56d242b3 ecryptfs: use memdup_user()
Remove open-coded memdup_user().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:51 -04:00
Li Zefan
a9482ebcde ncpfs: use memdup_user()
Remove open-coded memdup_user()

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:51 -04:00
Li Zefan
0e639bdeef xfs: use memdup_user()
Remove open-coded memdup_user()

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:51 -04:00
Li Zefan
1c8542c7bb sysfs: use memdup_user()
Remove open-coded memdup_user().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:50 -04:00
Li Zefan
dae7b665cf btrfs: use memdup_user()
Remove open-coded memdup_user().

Note this changes some GFP_NOFS to GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() may
cause pagefault, it's pointless to pass GFP_NOFS to kmalloc().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:50 -04:00
Li Zefan
3939fcde24 xattr: use memdup_user()
Remove open-coded memdup_user()

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:50 -04:00
Al Viro
3eac8778a2 autofs4: use memchr() in invalid_string()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:02:50 -04:00
David Woodhouse
2f9092e102 Fix i_mutex vs. readdir handling in nfsd
Commit 14f7dd63 ("Copy XFS readdir hack into nfsd code") introduced a
bug to generic code which had been extant for a long time in the XFS
version -- it started to call through into lookup_one_len() and hence
into the file systems' ->lookup() methods without i_mutex held on the
directory.

This patch fixes it by locking the directory's i_mutex again before
calling the filldir functions. The original deadlocks which commit
14f7dd63 was designed to avoid are still avoided, because they were due
to fs-internal locking, not i_mutex.

While we're at it, fix the return type of nfsd_buffered_readdir() which
should be a __be32 not an int -- it's an NFS errno, not a Linux errno.
And return nfserrno(-ENOMEM) when allocation fails, not just -ENOMEM.
Sparse would have caught that, if it wasn't so busy bitching about
__cold__.

Commit 05f4f678 ("nfsd4: don't do lookup within readdir in recovery
code") introduced a similar problem with calling lookup_one_len()
without i_mutex, which this patch also addresses. To fix that, it was
necessary to fix the called functions so that they expect i_mutex to be
held; that part was done by J. Bruce Fields.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Umm-I-can-live-with-that-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Tested-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
LKML-Reference: <8036.1237474444@jrobl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
Alexander Beregalov
1ba0c7dbbb fs/compat_ioctl: fix build when !BLOCK
In file included from fs/compat_ioctl.c:61:
include/linux/loop.h:59: error: field 'lo_bio_list' has incomplete type

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:16 -04:00
Al Viro
117aff744a Fix autofs_expire()
mnt should remain the same for all iterations through the list;
as it is, if we have a busy mount, mnt follows into it and isn't
restored for the next iteration.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:15 -04:00
Al Viro
24b6f16ecf No need for crossing to mountpoint in audit_tag_tree()
is_under() will DTRT anyway.  And yes, is_subdir() behaviour
is intentional.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:15 -04:00
Al Viro
1644ccc8a9 Safer nfsd_cross_mnt()
AFAICS, we have a subtle bug there: if we have crossed mountpoint
*and* it got mount --move'd away, we'll be holding only one
reference to fs containing dentry - exp->ex_path.mnt.  IOW, we
ought to dput() before exp_put().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:15 -04:00
Al Viro
e5d67f0715 Touch all affected namespaces on propagation of mount
We shouldn't just touch the namespace of current process

Caught-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:15 -04:00
Al Viro
cf2706a340 Fix AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_REQUESTER_CMD
Missing conversion from kernel to userland dev_t; this sucker
breaks as soon as we get sufficiently many autofs mounts for
new_encode_dev(s_dev) != s_dev.

Note: this is the minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-20 23:01:15 -04:00
Steve French
cbb7fe129b Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-04-20 19:59:09 +00:00
Suresh Jayaraman
7b0c8fcff4 cifs: Increase size of tmp_buf in cifs_readdir to avoid potential overflows
Increase size of tmp_buf to possible maximum to avoid potential
overflows.

Pointed-out-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-20 19:58:09 +00:00
Suresh Jayaraman
968460ebd8 cifs: Rename cifs_strncpy_to_host and fix buffer size
There is a possibility for the path_name and node_name buffers to
overflow if they contain charcters that are >2 bytes in the local
charset. Resize the buffer allocation so to avoid this possibility.

Also, as pointed out by Jeff Layton, it would be appropriate to
rename the function to cifs_strlcpy_to_host to reflect the fact
that the copied string is always NULL terminated.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-20 19:58:06 +00:00
Chris Mason
8c594ea81d Btrfs: use the right node in reada_for_balance
reada_for_balance was using the wrong index into the path node array,
so it wasn't reading the right blocks.  We never directly used the
results of the read done by this function because the btree search is
started over at the end.

This fixes reada_for_balance to reada in the correct node and to
avoid searching past the last slot in the node.  It also makes sure to
hold the parent lock while we are finding the nodes to read.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20 15:53:09 -04:00
Chris Mason
11c8349b4e Btrfs: fix oops on page->mapping->host during writepage
The extent_io writepage call updates the writepage index in the inode
as it makes progress.  But, it was doing the update after unlocking the page,
which isn't legal because page->mapping can't be trusted once the page
is unlocked.

This lead to an oops, especially common with compression turned on.  The
fix here is to update the writeback index before unlocking the page.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20 15:53:09 -04:00
Chris Mason
d313d7a31a Btrfs: add a priority queue to the async thread helpers
Btrfs is using WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to send down synchronous IOs with a
higher priority.  But, the checksumming helper threads prevent it
from being fully effective.

There are two problems.  First, a big queue of pending checksumming
will delay the synchronous IO behind other lower priority writes.  Second,
the checksumming uses an ordered async work queue.  The ordering makes sure
that IOs are sent to the block layer in the same order they are sent
to the checksumming threads.  Usually this gives us less seeky IO.

But, when we start mixing IO priorities, the lower priority IO can delay
the higher priority IO.

This patch solves both problems by adding a high priority list to the async
helper threads, and a new btrfs_set_work_high_prio(), which is used
to make put a new async work item onto the higher priority list.

The ordering is still done on high priority IO, but all of the high
priority bios are ordered separately from the low priority bios.  This
ordering is purely an IO optimization, it is not involved in data
or metadata integrity.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20 15:53:08 -04:00
Chris Mason
ffbd517d5a Btrfs: use WRITE_SYNC for synchronous writes
Part of reducing fsync/O_SYNC/O_DIRECT latencies is using WRITE_SYNC for
writes we plan on waiting on in the near future.  This patch
mirrors recent changes in other filesystems and the generic code to
use WRITE_SYNC when WB_SYNC_ALL is passed and to use WRITE_SYNC for
other latency critical writes.

Btrfs uses async worker threads for checksumming before the write is done,
and then again to actually submit the bios.  The bio submission code just
runs a per-device list of bios that need to be sent down the pipe.

This list is split into low priority and high priority lists so the
WRITE_SYNC IO happens first.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2009-04-20 15:53:08 -04:00
Steve French
ff6945279d [CIFS] Make cifs_unlink consistent in checks for null inode
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-20 19:45:13 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
e56985da45 GFS2: Fix page_mkwrite() return code
This allows for the possibility of returning VM_FAULT_OOM as
well as VM_FAULT_SIGBUS. This ensures that the correct action
is taken.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-20 16:02:02 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
52fcd11c09 GFS2: Clear dirty bit at end of inode glock sync
The dirty bit can get set during the inode glock sync. Its too
complicated to change that at the moment, so this is the quick
fix - to clear the bit again at the end of the function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-04-20 09:05:21 +01:00
Andi Kleen
613cbe3d48 Don't set relatime when noatime is specified
Since commit 0a1c01c9477602ee8b44548a9405b2c1d587b5a2 ("Make relatime
default") when a file system is mounted explicitely with noatime it gets
both the MNT_RELATIME and MNT_NOATIME bits set.

This shows up like this in /proc/mounts:

  /dev/xxx /yyy ext3 rw,noatime,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0

That looks strange.  The VFS uses noatime in this case, but both flags
are set.  So it's more a cosmetic issue, but still better to fix.

Cc: mjg@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-19 10:46:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8d4ab5daca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: when renaming don't try to unlink negative dentry
  cifs: remove unneeded bcc_ptr update in CIFSTCon
  cifs: add cFYI messages with some of the saved strings from ssetup/tcon
  cifs: fix buffer size for tcon->nativeFileSystem field
  cifs: fix unicode string area word alignment in session setup
  [CIFS] Fix build break caused by change to new current_umask helper function
  [CIFS] Fix sparse warnings
  [CIFS] Add support for posix open during lookup
  cifs: no need to use rcu_assign_pointer on immutable keys
  cifs: remove dnotify thread code
  [CIFS] remove some build warnings
  cifs: vary timeout on writes past EOF based on offset (try #5)
  [CIFS] Fix build break from recent DFS patch when DFS support not enabled
  Remote DFS root support.
  [CIFS] Endian convert UniqueId when reporting inode numbers from server files
  cifs: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree()
  cifs: flush data on any setattr
2009-04-18 21:37:07 -07:00
Jeff Layton
fc6f394332 cifs: when renaming don't try to unlink negative dentry
When attempting to rename a file on a read-only share, the kernel can
call cifs_unlink on a negative dentry, which causes an oops. Only try
to unlink the file if it's a positive dentry.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 21:08:15 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
74a205a3f1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  UIO: fix specific device driver missing statement for depmod
  Driver core: remove pr_fmt() from dynamic_dev_dbg() printk
  driver core: prevent device_for_each_child from oopsing
  dynamic debug: resurrect old pr_debug() semantics as pr_devel()
  Driver Core: early platform driver
  proc: mounts_poll() make consistent to mdstat_poll
  sysfs: sysfs poll keep the poll rule of regular file.
  driver core: allow non-root users to listen to uevents
  driver core: fix driver_match_device
  sysfs: don't use global workqueue in sysfs_schedule_callback()
2009-04-17 13:53:16 -07:00
Matt Kraai
6566abdbd0 AFS: Guard afs_file_readpage_read_complete() definition with CONFIG_AFS_FSCACHE
If CONFIG_AFS_FSCACHE is not defined, the following warning is displayed when
fs/afs/file.c is compiled:

 fs/afs/file.c:111: warning: ‘afs_file_readpage_read_complete’ defined but not used

This occurs because all calls to this function are guarded by
CONFIG_AFS_FSCACHE.  Thus, guard its definition as well.

Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-17 09:55:19 -07:00
Alan Cox
d29a2e9438 vfat: Note the NLS requirement
Close bug #4754. Stop people getting into a situation where they can't
get their FAT filesystems to mount as they expect.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-17 09:32:11 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
b80901bbf5 splice: fix new kernel-doc warnings
splice: fix kernel-doc warnings

  Warning(fs/splice.c:617): bad line:
  Warning(fs/splice.c:722): No description found for parameter 'sd'
  Warning(fs/splice.c:722): Excess function parameter 'pipe' description in 'splice_from_pipe_begin'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-17 07:38:07 -07:00
Jeff Layton
22c9d52bc0 cifs: remove unneeded bcc_ptr update in CIFSTCon
This pointer isn't used again after this point. It's also not updated in
the ascii case, so there's no need to update it here.

Pointed-out-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:50 +00:00
Jeff Layton
313fecfa69 cifs: add cFYI messages with some of the saved strings from ssetup/tcon
...to make it easier to find problems in this area in the future.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:50 +00:00
Jeff Layton
f083def68f cifs: fix buffer size for tcon->nativeFileSystem field
The buffer for this was resized recently to fix a bug. It's still
possible however that a malicious server could overflow this field
by sending characters in it that are >2 bytes in the local charset.
Double the size of the buffer to account for this possibility.

Also get rid of some really strange and seemingly pointless NULL
termination. It's NULL terminating the string in the source buffer,
but by the time that happens, we've already copied the string.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:50 +00:00
Jeff Layton
27b87fe52b cifs: fix unicode string area word alignment in session setup
The handling of unicode string area alignment is wrong.
decode_unicode_ssetup improperly assumes that it will always be preceded
by a pad byte. This isn't the case if the string area is already
word-aligned.

This problem, combined with the bad buffer sizing for the serverDomain
string can cause memory corruption. The bad alignment can make it so
that the alignment of the characters is off. This can make them
translate to characters that are greater than 2 bytes each. If this
happens we can overflow the allocation.

Fix this by fixing the alignment in CIFS_SessSetup instead so we can
verify it against the head of the response. Also, clean up the
workaround for improperly terminated strings by checking for a
odd-length unicode buffers and then forcibly terminating them.

Finally, resize the buffer for serverDomain. Now that we've fixed
the alignment, it's probably fine, but a malicious server could
overflow it.

A better solution for handling these strings is still needed, but
this should be a suitable bandaid.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:50 +00:00
Steve French
88dd47fff4 [CIFS] Fix build break caused by change to new current_umask helper function
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:50 +00:00
Steve French
bc8cd4390c [CIFS] Fix sparse warnings
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
CC: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:49 +00:00
Steve French
a6ce4932fb [CIFS] Add support for posix open during lookup
This patch by utilizing lookup intents, and thus removing a network
roundtrip in the open path, improves performance dramatically on
open (30% or more) to Samba and other servers which support the
cifs posix extensions

Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:49 +00:00
Jeff Layton
d9fb5c091b cifs: no need to use rcu_assign_pointer on immutable keys
cifs: no need to use rcu_assign_pointer on immutable keys

Neither keytype in use by CIFS has an "update" method. This means that
the keys are immutable once instantiated. We don't need to use RCU
to set the payload data pointers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:49 +00:00
Jeff Layton
5144ebf408 cifs: remove dnotify thread code
cifs: remove dnotify thread code

Al Viro recently removed the dir_notify code from the kernel along with
the CIFS code that used it. We can also get rid of the dnotify thread
as well.

In actuality, it never had anything to do with dir_notify anyway. All
it did was unnecessarily wake up all the tasks waiting on the response
queues every 15s. Previously that happened to prevent tasks from hanging
indefinitely when the server went unresponsive, but we put those to
sleep with proper timeouts now so there's no reason to keep this around.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:49 +00:00
Steve French
2d6d589d80 [CIFS] remove some build warnings
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:49 +00:00
Jeff Layton
fbec9ab952 cifs: vary timeout on writes past EOF based on offset (try #5)
This is the fourth version of this patch:

The first three generated a compiler warning asking for explicit curly
braces.

The first two didn't handle update the size correctly when writes that
didn't start at the eof were done.

The first patch also didn't update the size correctly when it explicitly
set via truncate().

This patch adds code to track the client's current understanding of the
size of the file on the server separate from the i_size, and then to use
this info to semi-intelligently set the timeout for writes past the EOF.

This helps prevent timeouts when trying to write large, sparse files on
windows servers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:49 +00:00
Steve French
d036f50fc2 [CIFS] Fix build break from recent DFS patch when DFS support not enabled
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:48 +00:00
Igor Mammedov
1bfe73c258 Remote DFS root support.
Allows to mount share on a server that returns -EREMOTE
 at the tree connect stage or at the check on a full path
 accessibility.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:48 +00:00
Steve French
85a6dac54a [CIFS] Endian convert UniqueId when reporting inode numbers from server files
Jeff made a good point that we should endian convert the UniqueId when we use
it to set i_ino Even though this value is opaque to the client, when comparing
the inode numbers of the same server file from two different clients (one
big endian, one little endian) or when we compare a big endian client's view
of i_ino with what the server thinks - we should get the same value

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:48 +00:00
Wei Yongjun
74496d365a cifs: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree()
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:48 +00:00
Jeff Layton
0f4d634c59 cifs: flush data on any setattr
We already flush all the dirty pages for an inode before doing
ATTR_SIZE and ATTR_MTIME changes. There's another problem though -- if
we change the mode so that the file becomes read-only then we may not
be able to write data to it after a reconnect.

Fix this by just going back to flushing all the dirty data on any
setattr call. There are probably some cases that can be optimized out,
but I'm not sure they're worthwhile and we need to consider them more
carefully to make sure that we don't cause regressions if we have
to reconnect before writeback occurs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-04-17 01:26:48 +00:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
31b07093c4 proc: mounts_poll() make consistent to mdstat_poll
In recently sysfs_poll discussion, Neil Brown pointed out /proc/mounts
also should be fixed.

SUSv3 says "Regular files shall always poll TRUE for reading and
writing".  see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html

Then, mounts_poll()'s default should be "POLLIN | POLLRDNORM".  it mean
always readable.

In addition, event trigger should use "POLLERR | POLLPRI" instead
POLLERR.  it makes consistent to mdstat_poll() and sysfs_poll(). and,
select(2) can handle POLLPRI easily.


Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-16 16:17:10 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
1af3557abd sysfs: sysfs poll keep the poll rule of regular file.
Currently, following test programs don't finished.

% ruby -e '
Thread.new { sleep }
File.read("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies")
'

strace expose the reason.

...
open("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbf9fa6b8) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
_llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)            = 0
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL)        = 1 (in [3])
read(3, "1400000 1300000 1200000 1100000 1"..., 4096) = 62
select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL


Because Ruby (the scripting language) VM assume select system-call
against regular file don't block.  it because SUSv3 says "Regular files
shall always poll TRUE for reading and writing".  see
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html it
seems valid assumption.

But sysfs_poll() don't keep this rule although sysfs file can read and
write always.

This patch restore proper poll behavior to sysfs.
/sys/block/md*/md/sync_action polling application and another sysfs
updating sensitive application still can use POLLERR and POLLPRI.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-16 16:17:09 -07:00