There are some places in ext4_fill_super() where we would not return
proper error code if something fails. The confusion is caused probably
due to the fact that we have two "kind-of" return variables 'ret'and
'err'.
'ret' is used to return error code from ext4_fill_super() where err is
used to store return values from other functions within ext4_fill_super().
However some places were missing the obligatory 'ret = err'. We could
put the assignment where it is missing, but we can have better "future
proof" solution. Or we could convert the code to use just one, but it
would require more rewrites.
This commit fixes the problem by returning value from 'err' variable if
it is set and 'ret' otherwise in error handling branch of the
ext4_fill_super(). The reasoning is that 'ret' value is often set to
default "-EINVAL" or explicit value, where 'err' is used to store
return value from other functions and should be otherwise zero.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48431
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Notify user when mounting the file system with -o discard option, but
the device does not support discard. Obviously we do not want to fail
the mount or disable the options, because the underlying device might
change in future even without file system remount.
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
"overhead" was a write-only variable in this function after commit
952fc18e; we set it to 0 for minixdf, or to sbi->s_overhead if !minixdf,
but never read it again after that.
We need to use it, not sbi->s_overhead, when subtracting out overhead
for f_blocks, or we get the wrong answer for minixdf.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
bug (CVE-2012-4508) which leads to stale data exposure when we have
fallocate racing against writes to files undergoing delayed
allocation. We also have two fixes for the metadata checksum feature,
the most serious of which can cause the superblock to have a invalid
checksum after a power failure.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Various bug fixes for ext4. The most serious of them fixes a security
bug (CVE-2012-4508) which leads to stale data exposure when we have
fallocate racing against writes to files undergoing delayed
allocation. We also have two fixes for the metadata checksum feature,
the most serious of which can cause the superblock to have a invalid
checksum after a power failure."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Avoid underflow in ext4_trim_fs()
ext4: Checksum the block bitmap properly with bigalloc enabled
ext4: fix undefined bit shift result in ext4_fill_flex_info
ext4: fix metadata checksum calculation for the superblock
ext4: race-condition protection for ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio
ext4: serialize fallocate with ext4_convert_unwritten_extents
The result of the bit shift expression in
'1 << sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex' can be undefined in the case that
s_log_groups_per_flex is 31 because the result of the shift is bigger
than INT_MAX. In reality this probably should not cause much problems
since we'll end up with INT_MIN which will then be converted into
'unsigned int' type, but nevertheless according to the ISO C99 the
result is actually undefined.
Fix this by changing the left operand to 'unsigned int' type.
Note that the commit d50f2ab6f0 already
tried to fix the undefined behaviour, but this was missed.
Thanks to Laszlo Ersek for pointing this out and suggesting the fix.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
The function ext4_handle_dirty_super() was calculating the superblock
on the wrong block data. As a result, when the superblock is modified
while it is mounted (most commonly, when inodes are added or removed
from the orphan list), the superblock checksum would be wrong. We
didn't notice because the superblock *was* being correctly calculated
in ext4_commit_super(), and this would get called when the file system
was unmounted. So the problem only became obvious if the system
crashed while the file system was mounted.
Fix this by removing the poorly designed function signature for
ext4_superblock_csum_set(); if it only took a single argument, the
pointer to a struct superblock, the ambiguity which caused this
mistake would have been impossible.
Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems
which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online
resizing has been improved in general.
We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
work by Dmitry Monakhov.
There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
submitted fixes for the first time.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"The big new feature added this time is supporting online resizing
using the meta_bg feature. This allows us to resize file systems
which are greater than 16TB. In addition, the speed of online
resizing has been improved in general.
We also fix a number of races, some of which could lead to deadlocks,
in ext4's Asynchronous I/O and online defrag support, thanks to good
work by Dmitry Monakhov.
There are also a large number of more minor bug fixes and cleanups
from a number of other ext4 contributors, quite of few of which have
submitted fixes for the first time."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (69 commits)
ext4: fix ext4_flush_completed_IO wait semantics
ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode
ext4: fix ext_remove_space for punch_hole case
ext4: punch_hole should wait for DIO writers
ext4: serialize truncate with owerwrite DIO workers
ext4: endless truncate due to nonlocked dio readers
ext4: serialize unlocked dio reads with truncate
ext4: serialize dio nonlocked reads with defrag workers
ext4: completed_io locking cleanup
ext4: fix unwritten counter leakage
ext4: give i_aiodio_unwritten a more appropriate name
ext4: ext4_inode_info diet
ext4: convert to use leXX_add_cpu()
ext4: ext4_bread usage audit
fs: reserve fallocate flag codepoint
ext4: remove redundant offset check in mext_check_arguments()
ext4: don't clear orphan list on ro mount with errors
jbd2: fix assertion failure in commit code due to lacking transaction credits
ext4: release donor reference when EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl fails
ext4: enable FITRIM ioctl on bigalloc file system
...
Pull vfs update from Al Viro:
- big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of
that is moved to fs/file.c
(BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c. As it is,
we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct
file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons
are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of
struct file we used to have way back).
A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives,
disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least
doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore. A bunch of
relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file
leak.
- related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in
there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have).
- also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into
that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and
switch of fdinfo to seq_file.
- Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to
take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate
pile, this was just a mechanical code movement.
- a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle,
there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)."
Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly
simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file()
interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers"
vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of
/proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket)
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits)
MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t
compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation
fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount
coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file
coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper
usb/gadget: fix misannotations
fcntl: fix misannotations
ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits
hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative
vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check
switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
new helpers: fdget()/fdput()
switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light()
proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files
make get_file() return its argument
vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool
switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()
switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light()
switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light()
...
There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
deactivate_locked_super(). We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.
Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
paths. E.g. on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
namespace takes 0.07538s. rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.
The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and
from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.
The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to
handle those places with simple trivial patches.
Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
for most of the code size growth in my git tree.
Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
"capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.
While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process
netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed
usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.
Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
linux-next.
After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."
Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
...
AIO/DIO prefix is wrong because it account unwritten extents which
also may be scheduled from buffered write endio
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Generic inode has unused i_private pointer which may be used as cur_aio_dio
storage.
TODO: If cur_aio_dio will be passed as an argument to get_block_t this allow
to have concurent AIO_DIO requests.
Reviewed-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Convert cpu_to_leXX(leXX_to_cpu(E1) + E2) to use leXX_add_cpu().
dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch.
(https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If the file system contains errors and it is being mounted read-only,
don't clear the orphan list. We should minimize changes to the file
system if it is mounted read-only.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The crash was caused by a variable being erronously declared static in
token2str().
In addition to /proc/mounts, the problem can also be easily replicated
by accessing /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options in parallel:
$ cat /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options > options.txt
... and then running the following command in two different terminals:
$ while diff /proc/fs/ext4/<partition>/options options.txt; do true; done
This is also the cause of the following a crash while running xfstests
#234, as reported in the following bug reports:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053019https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47731
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Change struct dquot dq_id to a struct kqid and remove the now
unecessary dq_type.
Make minimal changes to dquot, quota_tree, quota_v1, quota_v2, ext3,
ext4, and ocfs2 to deal with the change in quota structures and
signatures. The ocfs2 changes are larger than most because of the
extensive tracing throughout the ocfs2 quota code that prints out
dq_id.
quota_tree.c:get_index is modified to take a struct kqid instead of a
qid_t because all of it's callers pass in dquot->dq_id and it allows
me to introduce only a single conversion.
The rest of the changes are either just replacing dq_type with dq_id.type,
adding conversions to deal with the change in type and occassionally
adding qid_eq to allow quota id comparisons in a user namespace safe way.
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Previously, we allocated the s_flex_groups array to the maximum size
that the file system could be resized. There was two problems with
this approach. First, it wasted memory in the common case where the
file system was not resized. Secondly, once we start allowing online
resizing using the meta_bg scheme, there is no maximum size that the
file system can be resized. So instead, we need to grow the
s_flex_groups at inline resize time.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We don't need lock_super()/unlock_super() any more, since the places
where it is used, we are protected by the s_umount r/w semaphore.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
the ones which cause problems for ext4 on RAID --- a performance
problem when mounting very large filesystems, and a kernel OOPS when
doing an rm -rf on large directory hierarchies on fast devices.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"The following are all bug fixes and regressions. The most notable are
the ones which cause problems for ext4 on RAID --- a performance
problem when mounting very large filesystems, and a kernel OOPS when
doing an rm -rf on large directory hierarchies on fast devices."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: fix kernel BUG on large-scale rm -rf commands
ext4: fix long mount times on very big file systems
ext4: don't call ext4_error while block group is locked
ext4: avoid kmemcheck complaint from reading uninitialized memory
ext4: make sure the journal sb is written in ext4_clear_journal_err()
In the very unlikely case that kset_create_and_add() fails when the
ext4.ko module is being loaded (or during kernel startup) set err so
that it's clear that the module load failed.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27912
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently in ext4 the length of zero-out chunk is set to 7 file system
blocks. But if an inode has uninitailized extents from using
fallocate to preallocate space, and the workload issues many random
writes, this can cause a fragmented extent tree that will
unnecessarily grow the extent tree.
So create a new sysfs tunable, extent_max_zeroout_kb, which controls
the maximum size where blocks will be zeroed out instead of creating a
new uninitialized extent. The default of this has been sent to 32kb.
CC: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
CC: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Very large directories can cause significant performance problems, or
perhaps even invoke the OOM killer, if the process is running in a
highly constrained memory environment (whether it is VM's with a small
amount of memory or in a small memory cgroup).
So it is useful, in cloud server/data center environments, to be able
to set a filesystem-wide cap on the maximum size of a directory, to
ensure that directories never get larger than a sane size. We do this
via a new mount option, max_dir_size_kb. If there is an attempt to
grow the directory larger than max_dir_size_kb, the system call will
return ENOSPC instead.
Google-Bug-Id: 6863013
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit 8aeb00ff85a: "ext4: fix overhead calculation used by
ext4_statfs()" introduced a O(n**2) calculation which makes very large
file systems take forever to mount. Fix this with an optimization for
non-bigalloc file systems. (For bigalloc file systems the overhead
needs to be set in the the superblock.)
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Commit 03179fe923 introduced a kmemcheck complaint in
ext4_da_get_block_prep() because we save and restore
ei->i_da_metadata_calc_last_lblock even though it is left
uninitialized in the case where i_da_metadata_calc_len is zero.
This doesn't hurt anything, but silencing the kmemcheck complaint
makes it easier for people to find real bugs.
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45631
(which is marked as a regression).
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
After we transfer set the EXT4_ERROR_FS bit in the file system
superblock, it's not enough to call jbd2_journal_clear_err() to clear
the error indication from journal superblock --- we need to call
jbd2_journal_update_sb_errno() as well. Otherwise, when the root file
system is mounted read-only, the journal is replayed, and the error
indicator is transferred to the superblock --- but the s_errno field
in the jbd2 superblock is left set (since although we cleared it in
memory, we never flushed it out to disk).
This can end up confusing e2fsck. We should make e2fsck more robust
in this case, but the kernel shouldn't be leaving things in this
confused state, either.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The '->write_super' superblock method is gone, and this patch removes all the
references to 'write_super' from ext3.
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull second vfs pile from Al Viro:
"The stuff in there: fsfreeze deadlock fixes by Jan (essentially, the
deadlock reproduced by xfstests 068), symlink and hardlink restriction
patches, plus assorted cleanups and fixes.
Note that another fsfreeze deadlock (emergency thaw one) is *not*
dealt with - the series by Fernando conflicts a lot with Jan's, breaks
userland ABI (FIFREEZE semantics gets changed) and trades the deadlock
for massive vfsmount leak; this is going to be handled next cycle.
There probably will be another pull request, but that stuff won't be
in it."
Fix up trivial conflicts due to unrelated changes next to each other in
drivers/{staging/gdm72xx/usb_boot.c, usb/gadget/storage_common.c}
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
delousing target_core_file a bit
Documentation: Correct s_umount state for freeze_fs/unfreeze_fs
fs: Remove old freezing mechanism
ext2: Implement freezing
btrfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
nilfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
ntfs: Convert to new freezing mechanism
fuse: Convert to new freezing mechanism
gfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
ocfs2: Convert to new freezing mechanism
xfs: Convert to new freezing code
ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism
fs: Protect write paths by sb_start_write - sb_end_write
fs: Skip atime update on frozen filesystem
fs: Add freezing handling to mnt_want_write() / mnt_drop_write()
fs: Improve filesystem freezing handling
switch the protection of percpu_counter list to spinlock
nfsd: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
btrfs: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
fat: Push mnt_want_write() outside of i_mutex
...
We remove most of frozen checks since upper layer takes care of blocking all
writes. We have to handle protection in ext4_page_mkwrite() in a special way
because we cannot use generic block_page_mkwrite(). Also we add a freeze
protection to ext4_evict_inode() so that iput() of unlinked inode cannot modify
a frozen filesystem (we cannot easily instrument ext4_journal_start() /
ext4_journal_stop() with freeze protection because we are missing the
superblock pointer in ext4_journal_stop() in nojournal mode).
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Massimo Morana <massimo.morana@canonical.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
greatest note is a speed up for parallel, non-allocating DIO writes,
since we no longer take the i_mutex lock in that case. For bug fixes,
we fix an incorrect overhead calculation which caused slightly
incorrect results for df(1) and statfs(2). We also fixed bugs in the
metadata checksum feature.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"The usual collection of bug fixes and optimizations. Perhaps of
greatest note is a speed up for parallel, non-allocating DIO writes,
since we no longer take the i_mutex lock in that case.
For bug fixes, we fix an incorrect overhead calculation which caused
slightly incorrect results for df(1) and statfs(2). We also fixed
bugs in the metadata checksum feature."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (23 commits)
ext4: undo ext4_calc_metadata_amount if we fail to claim space
ext4: don't let i_reserved_meta_blocks go negative
ext4: fix hole punch failure when depth is greater than 0
ext4: remove unnecessary argument from __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()
ext4: weed out ext4_write_super
ext4: remove unnecessary superblock dirtying
ext4: convert last user of ext4_mark_super_dirty() to ext4_handle_dirty_super()
ext4: remove useless marking of superblock dirty
ext4: fix ext4 mismerge back in January
ext4: remove dynamic array size in ext4_chksum()
ext4: remove unused variable in ext4_update_super()
ext4: make quota as first class supported feature
ext4: don't take the i_mutex lock when doing DIO overwrites
ext4: add a new nolock flag in ext4_map_blocks
ext4: split ext4_file_write into buffered IO and direct IO
ext4: remove an unused statement in ext4_mb_get_buddy_page_lock()
ext4: fix out-of-date comments in extents.c
ext4: use s_csum_seed instead of i_csum_seed for xattr block
ext4: use proper csum calculation in ext4_rename
ext4: fix overhead calculation used by ext4_statfs()
...
We do not depend on VFS's '->write_super()' anymore and do not need
the 's_dirt' flag anymore, so weed out 'ext4_write_super()' and
's_dirt'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This patch changes the 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' function which
submits the superblock for I/O in the following cases:
1. When creating the first large file on a file system without
EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature.
2. When re-sizing the file-system.
3. When creating an xattr on a file-system without the
EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR feature.
If the file-system has journal enabled, the superblock is written via
the journal. We do not modify this path.
If the file-system has no journal, this function, falls back to just
marking the superblock as dirty using the 's_dirt' superblock
flag. This means that it delays the actual superblock I/O submission
by 5 seconds (default setting). Namely, the 'sync_supers()' kernel
thread will call 'ext4_write_super()' later and will actually submit
the superblock for I/O.
And this is the behavior this patch modifies: we stop using 's_dirt'
and just mark the superblock buffer as dirty right away. Indeed, all 3
cases above are extremely rare and it does not add any value to delay
the I/O submission for them.
Note: 'ext4_handle_dirty_super()' executes
'__ext4_handle_dirty_super()' with 'now = 0'. This patch basically
makes the 'now' argument unneeded and it will be deleted in one of the
next patches.
This patch also removes 's_dirt' condition on the unmount path because
we never set it anymore, so we should not test it.
Tested using xfstests for both journalled and non-journalled ext4.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
This patch adds support for quotas as a first class feature in ext4;
which is to say, the quota files are stored in hidden inodes as file
system metadata, instead of as separate files visible in the file system
directory hierarchy.
It is based on the proposal at:
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Design_For_1st_Class_Quota_in_Ext4
This patch introduces a new feature - EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_QUOTA
which, when turned on, enables quota accounting at mount time
iteself. Also, the quota inodes are stored in two additional superblock
fields. Some changes introduced by this patch that should be pointed
out are:
1) Two new ext4-superblock fields - s_usr_quota_inum and
s_grp_quota_inum for storing the quota inodes in use.
2) Default quota inodes are: inode#3 for tracking userquota and inode#4
for tracking group quota. The superblock fields can be set to use
other inodes as well.
3) If the QUOTA feature and corresponding quota inodes are set in
superblock, the quota usage tracking is turned on at mount time. On
'quotaon' ioctl, the quota limits enforcement is turned
on. 'quotaoff' ioctl turns off only the limits enforcement in this
case.
4) When QUOTA feature is in use, the quota mount options 'quota',
'usrquota', 'grpquota' are ignored by the kernel.
5) mke2fs or tune2fs can be used to set the QUOTA feature and initialize
quota inodes. The default reserved inodes will not be visible to user
as regular files.
6) The quota-tools will need to be modified to support hidden quota
files on ext4. E2fsprogs will also include support for creating and
fixing quota files.
7) Support is only for the new V2 quota file format.
Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Since the moment writes to quota files are using block device page cache and
space for quota structures is reserved at the moment they are first accessed we
have no reason to sync quota before inode writeback. In fact this order is now
only harmful since quota information can easily change during inode writeback
(either because conversion of delayed-allocated extents or simply because of
allocation of new blocks for simple filesystems not using page_mkwrite).
So move syncing of quota information after writeback of inodes into ->sync_fs
method. This way we do not have to use ->quota_sync callback which is primarily
intended for use by quotactl syscall anyway and we get rid of calling
->sync_fs() twice unnecessarily. We skip quota syncing for OCFS2 since it does
proper quota journalling in all cases (unlike ext3, ext4, and reiserfs which
also support legacy non-journalled quotas) and thus there are no dirty quota
structures.
CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
CC: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Commit f975d6bcc7 introduced bug which caused ext4_statfs() to
miscalculate the number of file system overhead blocks. This causes
the f_blocks field in the statfs structure to be larger than it should
be. This would in turn cause the "df" output to show the number of
data blocks in the file system and the number of data blocks used to
be larger than they should be.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J. Wong's
metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
metadata fields. There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug
fixes.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull Ext4 updates from Theodore Ts'o:
"The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J Wong's
metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
metadata fields.
There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug fixes."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (44 commits)
ext4: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range
jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc wrapper instead of flag
ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing down the buddy_cache
ext4: add ext4_mb_unload_buddy in the error path
ext4: don't trash state flags in EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS
ext4: let getattr report the right blocks in delalloc+bigalloc
ext4: add missing save_error_info() to ext4_error()
ext4: add debugging trigger for ext4_error()
ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock
ext4: use consistent ssize_t type in ext4_file_write()
ext4: fix format flag in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx()
ext4: cleanup in ext4_discard_allocated_blocks()
ext4: return ENOMEM when mounts fail due to lack of memory
ext4: remove redundundant "(char *) bh->b_data" casts
ext4: disallow hard-linked directory in ext4_lookup
ext4: fix potential integer overflow in alloc_flex_gd()
ext4: remove needs_recovery in ext4_mb_init()
ext4: force ro mount if ext4_setup_super() fails
ext4: fix potential NULL dereference in ext4_free_inodes_counts()
ext4/jbd2: add metadata checksumming to the list of supported features
...
The ext4_error() function is missing a call to save_error_info().
Since this is the function which marks the file system as containing
an error, this oversight (which was introduced in 2.6.36) is quite
significant, and should be backported to older stable kernels with
high urgency.
Reported-by: Ken Sumrall <ksumrall@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: ksumrall@google.com
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Make it easy to test whether or not the error handling subsystem in
ext4 is working correctly. This allows us to simulate an ext4_error()
by echoing a string to /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>/trigger_fs_error.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: ksumrall@google.com
needs_recovery in ext4_mb_init() is not used, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.ne.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If ext4_setup_super() fails i.e. due to a too-high revision,
the error is logged in dmesg but the fs is not mounted RO as
indicated.
Tested by:
# mkfs.ext4 -r 4 /dev/sdb6
# mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/test
# dmesg | grep "too high"
[164919.759248] EXT4-fs (sdb6): revision level too high, forcing read-only mode
# grep sdb6 /proc/mounts
/dev/sdb6 /mnt/test2 ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Merge tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux
Pull writeback tree from Wu Fengguang:
"Mainly from Jan Kara to avoid iput() in the flusher threads."
* tag 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
writeback: Avoid iput() from flusher thread
vfs: Rename end_writeback() to clear_inode()
vfs: Move waiting for inode writeback from end_writeback() to evict_inode()
writeback: Refactor writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Remove wb->list_lock from writeback_single_inode()
writeback: Separate inode requeueing after writeback
writeback: Move I_DIRTY_PAGES handling
writeback: Move requeueing when I_SYNC set to writeback_sb_inodes()
writeback: Move clearing of I_SYNC into inode_sync_complete()
writeback: initialize global_dirty_limit
fs: remove 8 bytes of padding from struct writeback_control on 64 bit builds
mm: page-writeback.c: local functions should not be exposed globally
Add in the necessary code so that journal clients can enable the new
journal checksumming features.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Pull ext2, ext3 and quota fixes from Jan Kara:
"Interesting bits are:
- removal of a special i_mutex locking subclass (I_MUTEX_QUOTA) since
quota code does not need i_mutex anymore in any unusual way.
- backport (from ext4) of a fix of a checkpointing bug (missing cache
flush) that could lead to fs corruption on power failure
The rest are just random small fixes & cleanups."
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
ext2: trivial fix to comment for ext2_free_blocks
ext2: remove the redundant comment for ext2_export_ops
ext3: return 32/64-bit dir name hash according to usage type
quota: Get rid of nested I_MUTEX_QUOTA locking subclass
quota: Use precomputed value of sb_dqopt in dquot_quota_sync
ext2: Remove i_mutex use from ext2_quota_write()
reiserfs: Remove i_mutex use from reiserfs_quota_write()
ext4: Remove i_mutex use from ext4_quota_write()
ext3: Remove i_mutex use from ext3_quota_write()
quota: Fix double lock in add_dquot_ref() with CONFIG_QUOTA_DEBUG
jbd: Write journal superblock with WRITE_FUA after checkpointing
jbd: protect all log tail updates with j_checkpoint_mutex
jbd: Split updating of journal superblock and marking journal empty
ext2: do not register write_super within VFS
ext2: Remove s_dirt handling
ext2: write superblock only once on unmount
ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default
ext3: remove max_debt in find_group_orlov()
jbd: Refine commit writeout logic
Pull user namespace enhancements from Eric Biederman:
"This is a course correction for the user namespace, so that we can
reach an inexpensive, maintainable, and reasonably complete
implementation.
Highlights:
- Config guards make it impossible to enable the user namespace and
code that has not been converted to be user namespace safe.
- Use of the new kuid_t type ensures the if you somehow get past the
config guards the kernel will encounter type errors if you enable
user namespaces and attempt to compile in code whose permission
checks have not been updated to be user namespace safe.
- All uids from child user namespaces are mapped into the initial
user namespace before they are processed. Removing the need to add
an additional check to see if the user namespace of the compared
uids remains the same.
- With the user namespaces compiled out the performance is as good or
better than it is today.
- For most operations absolutely nothing changes performance or
operationally with the user namespace enabled.
- The worst case performance I could come up with was timing 1
billion cache cold stat operations with the user namespace code
enabled. This went from 156s to 164s on my laptop (or 156ns to
164ns per stat operation).
- (uid_t)-1 and (gid_t)-1 are reserved as an internal error value.
Most uid/gid setting system calls treat these value specially
anyway so attempting to use -1 as a uid would likely cause
entertaining failures in userspace.
- If setuid is called with a uid that can not be mapped setuid fails.
I have looked at sendmail, login, ssh and every other program I
could think of that would call setuid and they all check for and
handle the case where setuid fails.
- If stat or a similar system call is called from a context in which
we can not map a uid we lie and return overflowuid. The LFS
experience suggests not lying and returning an error code might be
better, but the historical precedent with uids is different and I
can not think of anything that would break by lying about a uid we
can't map.
- Capabilities are localized to the current user namespace making it
safe to give the initial user in a user namespace all capabilities.
My git tree covers all of the modifications needed to convert the core
kernel and enough changes to make a system bootable to runlevel 1."
Fix up trivial conflicts due to nearby independent changes in fs/stat.c
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (46 commits)
userns: Silence silly gcc warning.
cred: use correct cred accessor with regards to rcu read lock
userns: Convert the move_pages, and migrate_pages permission checks to use uid_eq
userns: Convert cgroup permission checks to use uid_eq
userns: Convert tmpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert sysfs to use kgid/kuid where appropriate
userns: Convert sysctl permission checks to use kuid and kgids.
userns: Convert proc to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext4 to user kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext3 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ext2 to use kuid/kgid where appropriate.
userns: Convert devpts to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binary formats to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Add negative depends on entries to avoid building code that is userns unsafe
userns: signal remove unnecessary map_cred_ns
userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces.
userns: Fail exec for suid and sgid binaries with ids outside our user namespace.
userns: Convert stat to return values mapped from kuids and kgids
userns: Convert user specfied uids and gids in chown into kuids and kgid
userns: Use uid_eq gid_eq helpers when comparing kuids and kgids in the vfs
...
Previously we were only enabling the 64-bit jbd2 feature if the number
of blocks in the file system was greater 2**32-1. The problem with
this is that it makes it harder to test the 64-bit journal code paths
with small file systems, since a small test file system would with the
64-bit ext4 feature enable would use a 64-bit file system on-disk data
structures, but use a 32-bit journal.
This would also cause problems when trying to do an online resize to
grow the filesystem above the 2**32-1 boundary. Fortunately the patch
to support online resize for 64-bit file systems hasn't been merged
yet, so this problem hasn't arisen in practice.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Lukas Czerner