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Author SHA1 Message Date
Theodore Ts'o dd1f723bf5 ext4: use prandom_u32() instead of get_random_bytes()
Many of the uses of get_random_bytes() do not actually need
cryptographically secure random numbers.  Replace those uses with a
call to prandom_u32(), which is faster and which doesn't consume
entropy from the /dev/random driver.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-11-08 00:14:53 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 9f203507ed ext4: mark all metadata I/O with REQ_META
As Dave Chinner pointed out at the 2013 LSF/MM workshop, it's
important that metadata I/O requests are marked as such to avoid
priority inversions caused by I/O bandwidth throttling.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-04-20 15:46:17 -04:00
Dmitry Monakhov 171a7f21a7 ext4: fix big-endian bug in metadata checksum calculations
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-04-09 23:56:48 -04:00
Wang Shilong aebf02430d ext4: use unlikely to improve the efficiency of the kernel
Because the function 'sb_getblk' seldomly fails to return NULL
value,it will be better to use 'unlikely' to optimize it.

Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2013-01-12 16:28:47 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o 860d21e2c5 ext4: return ENOMEM if sb_getblk() fails
The only reason for sb_getblk() failing is if it can't allocate the
buffer_head.  So ENOMEM is more appropriate than EIO.  In addition,
make sure that the file system is marked as being inconsistent if
sb_getblk() fails.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2013-01-12 16:19:36 -05:00
Jan Kara 8e8ad8a57c ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism
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>
2012-07-31 09:45:48 +04:00
Darrick J. Wong 5c359a47e7 ext4: add checksums to the MMP block
Compute and verify a checksum for the MMP block.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-04-29 18:47:10 -04:00
Santosh Nayak 85d216501a ext4: Fix endianness bug when reading the MMP block
Sparse complained about this endian bug in fs/ext4/mmp.c.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2012-02-27 01:09:03 -05:00
Darrick J. Wong f6f96fdb8c ext4: Fix comparison endianness problem in MMP initialization
As part of startup, the MMP initialization code does this:

mmp->mmp_seq = seq = cpu_to_le32(mmp_new_seq());

Next, mmp->mmp_seq is written out to disk, a delay happens, and then
the MMP block is read back in and the sequence value is tested:

if (seq != le32_to_cpu(mmp->mmp_seq)) {
	/* fail the mount */

On a LE system such as x86, the *le32* functions do nothing and this
works.  Unfortunately, on a BE system such as ppc64, this comparison
becomes:

if (cpu_to_le32(new_seq) != le32_to_cpu(cpu_to_le32(new_seq)) {
	/* fail the mount */

Except for a few palindromic sequence numbers, this test always causes
the mount to fail, which makes MMP filesystems generally unmountable
on ppc64.  The attached patch fixes this situation.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-18 10:53:51 -04:00
Nikitas Angelinas bdfc230f33 ext4: MMP: fix error message rate-limiting logic in kmmpd
Current logic would print an error message only once, and then
'failed_writes' would stay at 1.  Rework the loop to increment
'failed_writes' and print the error message every
s_mmp_update_interval * 60 seconds, as intended according to the
comment.

Signed-off-by: Nikitas Angelinas <nikitas_angelinas@xyratex.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Perepechko <andrew_perepechko@xyratex.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
2011-10-18 10:51:51 -04:00
Nikitas Angelinas 215fc6af73 ext4: MMP: kmmpd should use nodename from init_uts_ns.name, not sysname
sysname holds "Linux" by default, i.e. what appears when doing a "uname
-s"; nodename should be used to print the machine's hostname, i.e. what
is returned when doing a "uname -n" or "hostname", and what
gethostname(2)/sethostname(2) manipulate, in order to notify the
administrator of the node which is contending to mount the filesystem.

Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Nikitas Angelinas <nikitas_angelinas@xyratex.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Perepechko <andrew_perepechko@xyratex.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-10-18 10:49:51 -04:00
Johann Lombardi c5e06d101a ext4: add support for multiple mount protection
Prevent an ext4 filesystem from being mounted multiple times.
A sequence number is stored on disk and is periodically updated (every 5
seconds by default) by a mounted filesystem.
At mount time, we now wait for s_mmp_update_interval seconds to make sure
that the MMP sequence does not change.
In case of failure, the nodename, bdevname and the time at which the MMP
block was last updated is displayed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Johann Lombardi <johann@whamcloud.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-05-24 18:31:25 -04:00