kernel.git/fs/ext4/super.c, branch linux-2.6.28.y

Revert "ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()"

2009-03-17T00:32:33Z

(cherry picked from commit 9eddacf9e9c03578ef2c07c9534423e823d677f8) This undoes commit 14ce0cb411c88681ab8f3a4c9caa7f42e97a3184. Since jbd2_journal_start_commit() is now fixed to return 1 when we started a transaction commit, there's some transaction waiting to be committed or there's a transaction already committing, we don't need to call ext4_force_commit() in ext4_sync_fs(). Furthermore ext4_force_commit() can unnecessarily create sync transaction which is expensive so it's worthwhile to remove it when we can. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12224 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Eric Sandeen Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: Add sanity checks for the superblock before mounting the filesystem

2009-02-20T22:40:28Z

(cherry picked from commit 4ec110281379826c5cf6ed14735e47027c3c5765) This avoids insane superblock configurations that could lead to kernel oops due to null pointer derefences. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12371 Thanks to David Maciejak at Fortinet's FortiGuard Global Security Research Team who discovered this bug independently (but at approximately the same time) as Thiemo Nagel, who submitted the patch. Signed-off-by: Thiemo Nagel Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: avoid ext4_error when mounting a fs with a single bg

2009-02-20T22:40:23Z

(cherry picked from commit 565a9617b2151e21b22700e97a8b04e70e103153) Remove some completely unneeded code which which caused an ext4_error to be generated when mounting a file system with only a single block group. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: Add support for non-native signed/unsigned htree hash algorithms

2009-02-20T22:40:22Z

(cherry picked from commit f99b25897a86fcfff9140396a97261ae65fed872) The original ext3 hash algorithms assumed that variables of type char were signed, as God and K&R intended. Unfortunately, this assumption is not true on some architectures. Userspace support for marking filesystems with non-native signed/unsigned chars was added two years ago, but the kernel-side support was never added (until now). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()

2008-11-03T23:10:55Z

In ext4_sync_fs, we only wait for a commit to finish if we started it, but there may be one already in progress which will not be synced. In the case of a data=ordered umount with pending long symlinks which are delayed due to a long list of other I/O on the backing block device, this causes the buffer associated with the long symlinks to not be moved to the inode dirty list in the second phase of fsync_super. Then, before they can be dirtied again, kjournald exits, seeing the UMOUNT flag and the dirty pages are never written to the backing block device, causing long symlink corruption and exposing new or previously freed block data to userspace. To ensure all commits are synced, we flush all journal commits now when sync_fs'ing ext4. Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Eric Sandeen Cc:

ext4: Convert to host order before using the values.

2008-11-04T14:11:26Z

Use le16_to_cpu to read the s_reserved_gdt_blocks values from super block. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

ext4: fix a bug accessing freed memory in ext4_abort

2008-10-28T02:53:05Z

Vegard Nossum reported a bug which accesses freed memory (found via kmemcheck). When journal has been aborted, ext4_put_super() calls ext4_abort() after freeing the journal_t object, and then ext4_abort() accesses it. This patch fix it. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai Acked-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev

2008-10-23T17:23:07Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: (66 commits) [PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls [PATCH] get rid of struct file use in blkdev_ioctl() BLKBSZSET [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_locked_ioctl() [PATCH] get rid of blkdev_driver_ioctl() [PATCH] sanitize blkdev_get() and friends [PATCH] remember mode of reiserfs journal [PATCH] propagate mode through swsusp_close() [PATCH] propagate mode through open_bdev_excl/close_bdev_excl [PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put() [PATCH] kill the unused bsize on the send side of /dev/loop [PATCH] trim file propagation in block/compat_ioctl.c [PATCH] end of methods switch: remove the old ones [PATCH] switch sr [PATCH] switch sd [PATCH] switch ide-scsi [PATCH] switch tape_block [PATCH] switch dcssblk [PATCH] switch dasd [PATCH] switch mtd_blkdevs [PATCH] switch mmc ...

[PATCH] switch quota_on-related stuff to kern_path()

2008-10-23T09:12:44Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[PATCH] pass fmode_t to blkdev_put()

2008-10-21T11:48:58Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro