linux.git, branch v2.6.34-rc5

Linux 2.6.34-rc5

2010-04-19T23:29:56+00:00

rmap: add exclusively owned pages to the newest anon_vma

2010-04-19T23:28:20+00:00

The recent anon_vma fixes cause many anonymous pages to end up in the parent process anon_vma, even when the page is exclusively owned by the current process. Adding exclusively owned anonymous pages to the top anon_vma reduces rmap scanning overhead, especially in workloads with forking servers. This patch adds a parameter to __page_set_anon_rmap that can be used to indicate whether or not the added page is exclusively owned by the current process. Pages added through page_add_new_anon_rmap are exclusively owned by the current process, and can be added to the top anon_vma. Pages added through page_add_anon_rmap can be either shared or exclusively owned, so we do the conservative thing and add it to the oldest anon_vma. A next step would be to add the exclusive parameter to page_add_anon_rmap, to be used from functions where we do know for sure whether a page is exclusively owned. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner Lightly-tested-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim [ Edited to look nicer - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6

2010-04-19T21:20:32+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6: eCryptfs: Turn lower lookup error messages into debug messages eCryptfs: Copy lower directory inode times and size on link ecryptfs: fix use with tmpfs by removing d_drop from ecryptfs_destroy_inode ecryptfs: fix error code for missing xattrs in lower fs eCryptfs: Decrypt symlink target for stat size eCryptfs: Strip metadata in xattr flag in encrypted view eCryptfs: Clear buffer before reading in metadata xattr eCryptfs: Rename ecryptfs_crypt_stat.num_header_bytes_at_front eCryptfs: Fix metadata in xattr feature regression

eCryptfs: Turn lower lookup error messages into debug messages

2010-04-19T19:42:18+00:00

Vaugue warnings about ENAMETOOLONG errors when looking up an encrypted file name have caused many users to become concerned about their data. Since this is a rather harmless condition, I'm moving this warning to only be printed when the ecryptfs_verbosity module param is 1. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks

eCryptfs: Copy lower directory inode times and size on link

2010-04-19T19:42:15+00:00

The timestamps and size of a lower inode involved in a link() call was being copied to the upper parent inode. Instead, we should be copying lower parent inode's timestamps and size to the upper parent inode. I discovered this bug using the POSIX test suite at Tuxera. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks

ecryptfs: fix use with tmpfs by removing d_drop from ecryptfs_destroy_inode

2010-04-19T19:42:13+00:00

Since tmpfs has no persistent storage, it pins all its dentries in memory so they have d_count=1 when other file systems would have d_count=0. ->lookup is only used to create new dentries. If the caller doesn't instantiate it, it's freed immediately at dput(). ->readdir reads directly from the dcache and depends on the dentries being hashed. When an ecryptfs mount is mounted, it associates the lower file and dentry with the ecryptfs files as they're accessed. When it's umounted and destroys all the in-memory ecryptfs inodes, it fput's the lower_files and d_drop's the lower_dentries. Commit 4981e081 added this and a d_delete in 2008 and several months later commit caeeeecf removed the d_delete. I believe the d_drop() needs to be removed as well. The d_drop effectively hides any file that has been accessed via ecryptfs from the underlying tmpfs since it depends on it being hashed for it to be accessible. I've removed the d_drop on my development node and see no ill effects with basic testing on both tmpfs and persistent storage. As a side effect, after ecryptfs d_drops the dentries on tmpfs, tmpfs BUGs on umount. This is due to the dentries being unhashed. tmpfs->kill_sb is kill_litter_super which calls d_genocide to drop the reference pinning the dentry. It skips unhashed and negative dentries, but shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree doesn't. Since those dentries still have an elevated d_count, we get a BUG(). This patch removes the d_drop call and fixes both issues. This issue was reported at: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567887 Reported-by: Árpád Bíró Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Dustin Kirkland Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks

ecryptfs: fix error code for missing xattrs in lower fs

2010-04-19T19:42:09+00:00

If the lower file system driver has extended attributes disabled, ecryptfs' own access functions return -ENOSYS instead of -EOPNOTSUPP. This breaks execution of programs in the ecryptfs mount, since the kernel expects the latter error when checking for security capabilities in xattrs. Signed-off-by: Christian Pulvermacher Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks

eCryptfs: Decrypt symlink target for stat size

2010-04-19T19:41:51+00:00

Create a getattr handler for eCryptfs symlinks that is capable of reading the lower target and decrypting its path. Prior to this patch, a stat's st_size field would represent the strlen of the encrypted path, while readlink() would return the strlen of the decrypted path. This could lead to confusion in some userspace applications, since the two values should be equal. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524919 Reported-by: Loïc Minier Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks

Fix ISDN/Gigaset build failure

2010-04-19T18:53:17+00:00

Commit b91ecb00 ("gigaset: include cleanup cleanup") removed an implicit sched.h inclusion that came in via slab.h, and caused various compile problems as a result. This should fix it. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-04-19T15:35:47+00:00

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: Make RCU lockdep check the lockdep_recursion variable rcu: Update docs for rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected rcu: Better explain the condition parameter of rcu_dereference_check() rcu: Add rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected