History log of /linux-master/fs/ext2/xattr.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# c3e637c7 08-Jan-2024 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: Remove GFP_NOFS use in ext2_xattr_cache_insert()

ext2_xattr_cache_insert() calls mb_cache_entry_create() with GFP_NOFS
because it is called under EXT2_I(inode)->xattr_sem. However xattr_sem
or any higher ranking lock is not acquired on fs reclaim path for ext2
at least since we don't do page writeback from direct reclaim. Thus
GFP_NOFS is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# ce78a1ec 29-Sep-2023 Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>

ext2: move ext2_xattr_handlers and ext2_xattr_handler_map to .rodata

This makes it harder for accidental or malicious changes to
ext2_xattr_handlers or ext2_xattr_handler_map at runtime.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230930050033.41174-10-wedsonaf@gmail.com
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 83f99de1 15-Aug-2023 Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>

ext2: fix race between setxattr and write back

There's an issue when allocating xattrs as follows:
Block Allocation Reservation Windows Map (ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv):
reservation window 0x000000006f105382 start: 0, end: 0
reservation window 0x000000008fd1a555 start: 1044, end: 1059
Window map complete.
kernel BUG at fs/ext2/balloc.c:1158!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
RIP: 0010:ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv.isra.0+0x15c4/0x1800
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ext2_new_blocks+0x935/0x1690
ext2_new_block+0x73/0xa0
ext2_xattr_set2+0x74f/0x1730
ext2_xattr_set+0x12b6/0x2260
ext2_xattr_user_set+0x9c/0x110
__vfs_setxattr+0x139/0x1d0
__vfs_setxattr_noperm+0xfc/0x370
__vfs_setxattr_locked+0x205/0x2c0
vfs_setxattr+0x19d/0x3b0
do_setxattr+0xff/0x220
setxattr+0x123/0x150
path_setxattr+0x193/0x1e0
__x64_sys_setxattr+0xc8/0x170
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Above issue may happens as follows:
setxattr write back
ext2_xattr_set
ext2_xattr_set2
ext2_new_block
ext2_new_blocks
ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv
alloc_new_reservation
--> group=0 [0, 1023] rsv [1016, 1023]
do_writepages
mpage_writepages
write_cache_pages
__mpage_writepage
ext2_get_block
ext2_get_blocks
ext2_alloc_branch
ext2_new_blocks
ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv
alloc_new_reservation
-->group=1 [1024, 2047] rsv [1044, 1059]
if ((my_rsv->rsv_start > group_last_block) ||
(my_rsv->rsv_end < group_first_block)
rsv_window_dump
BUG();

Now ext2 mkwrite doesn't allocate new blocks so for these cases we may
be allocating blocks during writeback. However, there is no protection
between ext2_xattr_set() and do_writepages() so these two functions can
conflict on handling the reservation window. To solve about issue don't
use the reservation window when allocating block for xattr.

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20230815112612.221145-4-yebin10@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# b450159d 15-Aug-2023 Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>

ext2: introduce new flags argument for ext2_new_blocks()

This patch introduces a new flags argument for ext2_new_blocks() and also
a new EXT2_ALLOC_NORESERVE flag.

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20230815112612.221145-3-yebin10@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 2445a8a1 15-Aug-2023 Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>

ext2: remove ext2_new_block()

Now, only xattr allocate block use ext2_new_block(), so just opencode it in
the xattr code.

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20230815112612.221145-2-yebin10@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# e8807634 14-Aug-2023 Georg Ottinger <g.ottinger@gmx.at>

ext2: fix datatype of block number in ext2_xattr_set2()

I run a small server that uses external hard drives for backups. The
backup software I use uses ext2 filesystems with 4KiB block size and
the server is running SELinux and therefore relies on xattr. I recently
upgraded the hard drives from 4TB to 12TB models. I noticed that after
transferring some TBs I got a filesystem error "Freeing blocks not in
datazone - block = 18446744071529317386, count = 1" and the backup
process stopped. Trying to fix the fs with e2fsck resulted in a
completely corrupted fs. The error probably came from ext2_free_blocks(),
and because of the large number 18e19 this problem immediately looked
like some kind of integer overflow. Whereas the 4TB fs was about 1e9
blocks, the new 12TB is about 3e9 blocks. So, searching the ext2 code,
I came across the line in fs/ext2/xattr.c:745 where ext2_new_block()
is called and the resulting block number is stored in the variable block
as an int datatype. If a block with a block number greater than
INT32_MAX is returned, this variable overflows and the call to
sb_getblk() at line fs/ext2/xattr.c:750 fails, then the call to
ext2_free_blocks() produces the error.

Signed-off-by: Georg Ottinger <g.ottinger@gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230815100340.22121-1-g.ottinger@gmx.at>


# fc4eed64 05-Jul-2023 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

ext2: convert to ctime accessor functions

In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is
used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of
inode->i_ctime.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-39-jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# fae0a2b2 17-Mar-2023 Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>

ext2: remove redundant assignment to pointer end

Pointer is assigned a value that is never read, the assignment is
redundant and can be removed.

Cleans up clang-scan warning:
fs/ext2/xattr.c:555:3: warning: Value stored to 'end' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
end = (char *)header + sb->s_blocksize;

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230317143420.419005-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com>


# d549b741 01-Feb-2023 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

fs: rename generic posix acl handlers

Reflect in their naming and document that they are kept around for
legacy reasons and shouldn't be used anymore by new code.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>


# a5488f29 01-Feb-2023 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

fs: simplify ->listxattr() implementation

The ext{2,4}, erofs, f2fs, and jffs2 filesystems use the same logic to
check whether a given xattr can be listed. Simplify them and avoid
open-coding the same check by calling the helper we introduced earlier.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>


# 0c95c025 01-Feb-2023 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

fs: drop unused posix acl handlers

Remove struct posix_acl_{access,default}_handler for all filesystems
that don't depend on the xattr handler in their inode->i_op->listxattr()
method in any way. There's nothing more to do than to simply remove the
handler. It's been effectively unused ever since we introduced the new
posix acl api.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>


# 1189d8ec 11-Jul-2022 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: avoid deleting xattr block that is being reused

Currently when we decide to reuse xattr block we detect the case when
the last reference to xattr block is being dropped at the same time and
cancel the reuse attempt. Convert ext2 to a new scheme when as soon as
matching mbcache entry is found, we wait with dropping the last xattr
block reference until mbcache entry reference is dropped (meaning either
the xattr block reference is increased or we decided not to reuse the
block).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220712105436.32204-8-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# b67798d5 11-Jul-2022 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: unindent codeblock in ext2_xattr_set()

Replace one else in ext2_xattr_set() with a goto. This makes following
code changes simpler to follow. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220712105436.32204-7-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# 90ae40d2 11-Jul-2022 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: factor our freeing of xattr block reference

Free of xattr block reference is opencode in two places. Factor it out
into a separate function and use it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220712105436.32204-6-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# 1197d04f 25-Jun-2020 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>

ext2: initialize quota info in ext2_xattr_set()

In order to correctly account/limit space usage, should initialize
quota info before calling quota related functions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200626054959.114177-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>
Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 1fcbcf06 03-Jun-2020 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>

ext2: fix improper assignment for e_value_offs

In the process of changing value for existing EA,
there is an improper assignment of e_value_offs(setting to 0),
because it will be reset to incorrect value in the following
loop(shifting EA values before target). Delayed assignment
can avoid this issue.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200603084429.25344-1-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 44a52022 22-Mar-2020 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

ext2: fix empty body warnings when -Wextra is used

When EXT2_ATTR_DEBUG is not defined, modify the 2 debug macros
to use the no_printk() macro instead of <nothing>.
This fixes gcc warnings when -Wextra is used:

../fs/ext2/xattr.c:252:42: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement [-Wempty-body]
../fs/ext2/xattr.c:258:42: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement [-Wempty-body]
../fs/ext2/xattr.c:330:42: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement [-Wempty-body]
../fs/ext2/xattr.c:872:45: warning: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘else’ statement [-Wempty-body]

I have verified that the only object code change (with gcc 7.5.0) is
the reversal of some instructions from 'cmp a,b' to 'cmp b,a'.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e18a7395-61fb-2093-18e8-ed4f8cf56248@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 32302085 16-Mar-2020 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: fix debug reference to ext2_xattr_cache

Fix a debug-only build error in ext2/xattr.c:

When building without extra debugging, (and with another patch that uses
no_printk() instead of <empty> for the ext2-xattr debug-print macros,
this build error happens:

../fs/ext2/xattr.c: In function ‘ext2_xattr_cache_insert’:
../fs/ext2/xattr.c:869:18: error: ‘ext2_xattr_cache’ undeclared (first use in
this function); did you mean ‘ext2_xattr_list’?
atomic_read(&ext2_xattr_cache->c_entry_count));

Fix the problem by removing cached entry count from the debug message
since otherwise we'd have to export the mbcache structure just for that.

Fixes: be0726d33cb8 ("ext2: convert to mbcache2")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# bc36dfff 23-Feb-2020 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: Silence lockdep warning about reclaim under xattr_sem

Lockdep complains about a chain:
sb_internal#2 --> &ei->xattr_sem#2 --> fs_reclaim

and shrink_dentry_list -> ext2_evict_inode -> ext2_xattr_delete_inode ->
down_write(ei->xattr_sem) creating a locking cycle in the reclaim path.
This is however a false positive because when we are in
ext2_evict_inode() we are the only holder of the inode reference and
nobody else should touch xattr_sem of that inode. So we cannot ever
block on acquiring the xattr_sem in the reclaim path.

Silence the lockdep warning by using down_write_trylock() in
ext2_xattr_delete_inode() to not create false locking dependency.

Reported-by: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# e5d39597 23-Jul-2019 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>

ext2: fix block range in ext2_data_block_valid()

For block validity we should check the block range
from start_block to start_block + count - 1, so fix
the range in ext2_data_block_valid() and also modify
the count argument properly in calling place.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190723112155.20329-1-cgxu519@zoho.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 90f15ac9 03-Jul-2019 Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>

ext2: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

kmemdup is introduced to duplicate a region of memory in a neat way.
Rather than kmalloc/kzalloc + memset, which the programmer needs to
write the size twice (sometimes lead to mistakes), kmemdup improves
readability, leads to smaller code and also reduce the chances of mistakes.
Suggestion to use kmemdup rather than using kmalloc/kzalloc + memset.

Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190703131727.25735-1-huangfq.daxian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 1eaf5faa 27-May-2019 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>

ext2: optimize ext2_xattr_get()

Since xattr entry names are sorted, we don't have
to continue when current entry name is greater than
target.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# d561d4dd 27-May-2019 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>

ext2: introduce new helper for xattr entry comparison

Introduce new helper ext2_xattr_cmp_entry() for xattr
entry comparison.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 9bb1d7a6 27-May-2019 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>

ext2: merge xattr next entry check to ext2_xattr_entry_valid()

We have introduced ext2_xattr_entry_valid() for xattr
entry sanity check, so it's better to do relevant things
in one place.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 6c71b489 15-May-2019 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: Strengthen xattr block checks

Check every entry in xattr block for validity in ext2_xattr_set() to
detect on disk corruption early. Also since e_value_block field in xattr
entry is never != 0 in a valid filesystem, just remove checks for it
once we have established entries are valid.

Reviewed-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 8cd0f2ba 15-May-2019 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: Merge loops in ext2_xattr_set()

There are two very similar loops when searching xattr to set. Just merge
them.

Reviewed-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# f4c3fb8c 13-May-2019 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>

ext2: introduce helper for xattr entry validation

Introduce helper function ext2_xattr_entry_valid()
for xattr entry validation and clean up the entry
check related code.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 02475de9 13-May-2019 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>

ext2: introduce helper for xattr header validation

Introduce helper function ext2_xattr_header_valid()
for xattr header validation and clean up the header
check ralated code.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@zoho.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 032cdc39 21-Jan-2019 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: Set superblock revision when enabling xattr feature

When setting the first xattr, we automatically enable
EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR. However we forget to call
ext2_update_dynamic_rev() so in theory if the filesystem was created as
ancient one without features support, this could be missed. The
consequences are minor anyway - since the feature is compat one, only
old e2fsck which does not understand xattrs could do something bad.

Reported-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# ecebf55d 24-Nov-2018 Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>

ext2: fix potential use after free

The function ext2_xattr_set calls brelse(bh) to drop the reference count
of bh. After that, bh may be freed. However, following brelse(bh),
it reads bh->b_data via macro HDR(bh). This may result in a
use-after-free bug. This patch moves brelse(bh) after reading field.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 3e159b95 14-Nov-2018 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>

ext2: change reusable parameter to true when calling mb_cache_entry_create()

Reusable parameter of mb_cache_entry_create() is bool type,
so it's better to set true instead of 1.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 47387409 22-Jun-2017 Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>

ext2, ext4: make mb block cache names more explicit

There will be a second mb_cache instance that tracks ea_inodes. Make
existing names more explicit so that it is clear that they refer to
xattr block cache.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# c07dfcb4 22-Jun-2017 Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>

mbcache: make mbcache naming more generic

Make names more generic so that mbcache usage is not limited to
block sharing. In a subsequent patch in the series
("ext4: xattr inode deduplication"), we start using the mbcache code
for sharing xattr inodes. With that patch, old mb_cache_entry.e_block
field could be holding either a block number or an inode number.

Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# 02027d42 14-Sep-2016 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps

CURRENT_TIME_SEC is not y2038 safe. current_time() will
be transitioned to use 64 bit time along with vfs in a
separate patch.
There is no plan to transistion CURRENT_TIME_SEC to use
y2038 safe time interfaces.

current_time() will also be extended to use superblock
range checking parameters when range checking is introduced.

This works because alloc_super() fills in the the s_time_gran
in super block to NSEC_PER_SEC.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ff0031d8 05-Jul-2016 Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>

ext2: fix filesystem deadlock while reading corrupted xattr block

This bug can be reproducible with fsfuzzer, although, I couldn't reproduce it
100% of my tries, it is quite easily reproducible.

During the deletion of an inode, ext2_xattr_delete_inode() does not check if the
block pointed by EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl is a valid data block, this might
lead to a deadlock, when i_file_acl == 1, and the filesystem block size is 1024.

In that situation, ext2_xattr_delete_inode, will load the superblock's buffer
head (instead of a valid i_file_acl block), and then lock that buffer head,
which, ext2_sync_super will also try to lock, making the filesystem deadlock in
the following stack trace:

root 17180 0.0 0.0 113660 660 pts/0 D+ 07:08 0:00 rmdir
/media/test/dir1

[<ffffffff8125da9f>] __sync_dirty_buffer+0xaf/0x100
[<ffffffff8125db03>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffffa03f0d57>] ext2_sync_super+0xb7/0xc0 [ext2]
[<ffffffffa03f10b9>] ext2_error+0x119/0x130 [ext2]
[<ffffffffa03e9d93>] ext2_free_blocks+0x83/0x350 [ext2]
[<ffffffffa03f3d03>] ext2_xattr_delete_inode+0x173/0x190 [ext2]
[<ffffffffa03ee9e9>] ext2_evict_inode+0xc9/0x130 [ext2]
[<ffffffff8123fd23>] evict+0xb3/0x180
[<ffffffff81240008>] iput+0x1b8/0x240
[<ffffffff8123c4ac>] d_delete+0x11c/0x150
[<ffffffff8122fa7e>] vfs_rmdir+0xfe/0x120
[<ffffffff812340ee>] do_rmdir+0x17e/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81234dd6>] SyS_rmdir+0x16/0x20
[<ffffffff81838cf2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Fix this by using the same approach ext4 uses to test data blocks validity,
implementing ext2_data_block_valid.

An another possibility when the superblock is very corrupted, is that i_file_acl
is 1, block_count is 1 and first_data_block is 0. For such situations, we might
have i_file_acl pointing to a 'valid' block, but still step over the superblock.
The approach I used was to also test if the superblock is not in the range
described by ext2_data_block_valid() arguments

Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# 6048c64b 22-Feb-2016 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

mbcache: add reusable flag to cache entries

To reduce amount of damage caused by single bad block, we limit number
of inodes sharing an xattr block to 1024. Thus there can be more xattr
blocks with the same contents when there are lots of files with the same
extended attributes. These xattr blocks naturally result in hash
collisions and can form long hash chains and we unnecessarily check each
such block only to find out we cannot use it because it is already
shared by too many inodes.

Add a reusable flag to cache entries which is cleared when a cache entry
has reached its maximum refcount. Cache entries which are not marked
reusable are skipped by mb_cache_entry_find_{first,next}. This
significantly speeds up mbcache when there are many same xattr blocks.
For example for xattr-bench with 5 values and each process handling
20000 files, the run for 64 processes is 25x faster with this patch.
Even for 8 processes the speedup is almost 3x. We have also verified
that for situations where there is only one xattr block of each kind,
the patch doesn't have a measurable cost.

[JK: Remove handling of setting the same value since it is not needed
anymore, check for races in e_reusable setting, improve changelog,
add measurements]

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# 7a2508e1 22-Feb-2016 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

mbcache2: rename to mbcache

Since old mbcache code is gone, let's rename new code to mbcache since
number 2 is now meaningless. This is just a mechanical replacement.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# be0726d3 22-Feb-2016 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: convert to mbcache2

The conversion is generally straightforward. We convert filesystem from
a global cache to per-fs one. Similarly to ext4 the tricky part is that
xattr block corresponding to found mbcache entry can get freed before we
get buffer lock for that block. So we have to check whether the entry is
still valid after getting the buffer lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


# a1c6f057 13-Apr-2015 Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>

fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 764a5c6b 02-Dec-2015 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

xattr handlers: Simplify list operation

Change the list operation to only return whether or not an attribute
should be listed. Copying the attribute names into the buffer is moved
to the callers.

Since the result only depends on the dentry and not on the attribute
name, we do not pass the attribute name to list operations.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# d9a82a04 04-Oct-2015 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

xattr handlers: Pass handler to operations instead of flags

The xattr_handler operations are currently all passed a file system
specific flags value which the operations can use to disambiguate between
different handlers; some file systems use that to distinguish the xattr
namespace, for example. In some oprations, it would be useful to also have
access to the handler prefix. To allow that, pass a pointer to the handler
to operations instead of the flags value alone.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2b0143b5 17-Mar-2015 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations

that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 64e178a7 20-Dec-2013 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ab6a773d 15-Jan-2013 Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

Ext2: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails

As the only reason that sb_getblks fails is that allocation fails.
It will be better to use ENOMEM rather than EIO.

Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 2b0542a4 12-Jan-2013 Wang Shilong <wangsl-fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

Ext2: 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: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# b838ec22 31-Mar-2012 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: Remove s_dirt handling

Places which modify superblock feature / state fields mark the superblock
buffer dirty so it is written out by flusher thread. Thus there's no need to
set s_dirt there.

The only other fields changing in the superblock are the numbers of free
blocks, free inodes and s_wtime. There's no real need to write (or even
compute) these periodically. Free blocks / inodes counters are recomputed on
every mount from group counters anyway and value of s_wtime is only
informational and imprecise anyway. So it should be enough to write these
opportunistically on mount, remount, umount, and sync_fs times.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 302bf2f3 04-Jan-2012 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

ext2/3/4: delete unneeded includes of module.h

Delete any instances of include module.h that were not strictly
required. In the case of ext2, the declaration of MODULE_LICENSE
etc. were in inode.c but the module_init/exit were in super.c, so
relocate the MODULE_LICENCE/AUTHOR block to super.c which makes it
consistent with ext3 and ext4 at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 03b5bb34 22-Jul-2011 Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>

ext2: check xattr name_len before acquiring xattr_sem in ext2_xattr_get

In ext2_xattr_get(), the code will acquire xattr_sem first, later checks
the length of xattr name_len > 255. It's unnecessarily time consuming and
also ext2_xattr_set() checks the length before other checks. So move the
check before acquiring xattr_sem to make these two functions consistent.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 25985edc 30-Mar-2011 Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

Fix common misspellings

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>


# 1f605b30 09-Jan-2011 Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover@gmail.com>

ext2: remove dead code in ext2_xattr_get

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>


# 6e9510b0 09-Jan-2011 Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover@gmail.com>

ext2,ext3,ext4: clarify comment for extN_xattr_set_handle

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <crosslonelyover@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>


# c3765016 06-Oct-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

fs: add sync_inode_metadata

Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation. A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2aec7c52 19-Jul-2010 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>

mbcache: Remove unused features

The mbcache code was written to support a variable number of indexes,
but all the existing users use exactly one index. Simplify to code to
support only that case.

There are also no users of the cache entry free operation, and none of
the users keep extra data in cache entries. Remove those features as
well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3937871d 21-Jul-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Don't dirty the victim in ext2_xattr_delete_inode()

... it's beyond fs-writeback reach already - writeback won't
be started at that point.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# addacc7d 21-Jul-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Take dirtying the inode to callers of ext2_free_blocks()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 3889717d 21-Jul-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

ext2: switch to dquot_free_block_nodirty()

brute-force conversion

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 749c72ef 13-May-2010 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

ext2: constify xattr_handler

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# c15271f4 14-Apr-2010 Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>

ext2: Add ext2_sb_info s_lock spinlock

Add a spinlock that protects against concurrent modifications of
s_mount_state, s_blocks_last, s_overhead_last and the content of the
superblock's buffer pointed to by sbi->s_es. The spinlock is now used in
ext2_xattr_update_super_block() which was setting the
EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_EXT_ATTR flag on the superblock without protection
before. Likewise the spinlock is used in ext2_show_options() to have a
consistent view of the mount options.

This is a preparation patch for removing the BKL from ext2 in the next
patch.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 5dd4056d 03-Mar-2010 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines

Get rid of the alloc_space, free_space, reserve_space, claim_space and
release_rsv dquot operations - they are always called from the filesystem
and if a filesystem really needs their own (which none currently does)
it can just call into it's own routine directly.

Move shared logic into the common __dquot_alloc_space,
dquot_claim_space_nodirty and __dquot_free_space low-level methods,
and rationalize the wrappers around it to move as much as possible
code into the common block for CONFIG_QUOTA vs not. Also rename
all these helpers to be named dquot_* instead of vfs_dq_*.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>


# 431547b3 13-Nov-2009 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

sanitize xattr handler prototypes

Add a flags argument to struct xattr_handler and pass it to all xattr
handler methods. This allows using the same methods for multiple
handlers, e.g. for the ACL methods which perform exactly the same action
for the access and default ACLs, just using a different underlying
attribute. With a little more groundwork it'll also allow sharing the
methods for the regular user/trusted/secure handlers in extN, ocfs2 and
jffs2 like it's already done for xfs in this patch.

Also change the inode argument to the handlers to a dentry to allow
using the handlers mechnism for filesystems that require it later,
e.g. cifs.

[with GFS2 bits updated by Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6f90bee5 26-Jan-2009 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

ext2: Use lowercase names of quota functions

Use lowercase names of quota functions instead of old uppercase ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org


# 24097d12 28-Apr-2008 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

ext2: use ext2_group_first_block_no()

Use ext2_group_first_block_no() and assign the return values to
ext2_fsblk_t variables.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# fba4d399 28-Apr-2008 Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>

ext2: le*_add_cpu conversion

replace all:
little_endian_variable = cpu_to_leX(leX_to_cpu(little_endian_variable) +
expression_in_cpu_byteorder);
with:
leX_add_cpu(&little_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder);
generated with semantic patch

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 335e92e8 15-Apr-2008 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrs

mb_cache_entry_alloc() was allocating cache entries with GFP_KERNEL. But
filesystems are calling this function while holding xattr_sem so possible
recursion into the fs violates locking ordering of xattr_sem and transaction
start / i_mutex for ext2-4. Change mb_cache_entry_alloc() so that filesystems
can specify desired gfp mask and use GFP_NOFS from all of them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a686cd89 17-Oct-2007 Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>

ext2 reservations

Val's cross-port of the ext3 reservations code into ext2.

[mbligh@mbligh.org: Small type error for printk
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix types, sync with ext3]
[mbligh@mbligh.org: Bring ext2 reservations code in line with latest ext3]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kill noisy printk]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remember to dirty the gdp's block]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cross-port the missed 5dea5176e5c32ef9f0d1a41d28427b3bf6881b3a]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cross-port e6022603b9aa7d61d20b392e69edcdbbc1789969]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Port the omitted 08fb306fe63d98eb86e3b16f4cc21816fa47f18e]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Backport the missed 20acaa18d0c002fec180956f87adeb3f11f635a6]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes]
[cmm@us.ibm.com: fix reservation extension]
[bunk@stusta.de: make ext2_get_blocks() static]
[hugh@veritas.com: fix hang]
[hugh@veritas.com: ext2_new_blocks should reset the reservation window size]
[hugh@veritas.com: ext2 balloc: fix off-by-one against rsv_end]
[hugh@veritas.com: grp_goal 0 is a genuine goal (unlike -1), so ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv should treat it as such]
[hugh@veritas.com: rbtree usage cleanup]
[pbadari@us.ibm.com: Fix for ext2 reservation]
[bunk@kernel.org: remove fs/ext2/balloc.c:reserve_blocks()]
[hugh@veritas.com: ext2 balloc: use io_error label]
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
Cc: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ed2908f3 06-Dec-2006 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>

[PATCH] Remove superfluous lock_super() in extN xattr code

lock_super() is unnecessary for setting super-block feature flags. Use the
provided *_SET_COMPAT_FEATURE() macros as well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# f8314dc6 27-Sep-2006 Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>

[PATCH] fs: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc

Conversions from kmalloc+memset to kzalloc.

Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Jffs2-bit-acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# b2f49033 17-Feb-2006 Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>

[PATCH] fix deadlock in ext2

Fix a deadlock possible in the ext2 file system implementation. This
deadlock occurs when a file is removed from an ext2 file system which was
mounted with the "sync" mount option.

The problem is that ext2_xattr_delete_inode() was invoking the routine,
sync_dirty_buffer(), using a buffer head which was previously locked via
lock_buffer(). The first thing that sync_dirty_buffer() does is to lock
the buffer head that it was passed. It does this via lock_buffer(). Oops.

The solution is to unlock the buffer head in ext2_xattr_delete_inode()
before invoking sync_dirty_buffer(). This makes the code in
ext2_xattr_delete_inode() obey the same locking rules as all other callers
of sync_dirty_buffer() in the ext2 file system implementation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 267fd057 09-Jan-2006 akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] remove ext2 xattr permission checks


From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

remove checks now in the VFS

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1b1dcc1b 09-Jan-2006 Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>

[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 8c52ab42 27-Jul-2005 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>

[PATCH] mbcache: Remove unused mb_cache_shrink parameter

The cache parameter to mb_cache_shrink isn't used. We may as well remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 1da177e4 16-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!