History log of /linux-master/fs/ubifs/gc.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 50cb4373 14-Nov-2021 Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>

ubifs: read-only if LEB may always be taken in ubifs_garbage_collect

If ubifs_garbage_collect_leb() returns -EAGAIN and ubifs_return_leb
returns error, a LEB will always has a "taken" flag. In this case,
set the ubifs to read-only to prevent a worse situation.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 0d765021 14-Nov-2021 Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>

ubifs: fix double return leb in ubifs_garbage_collect

If ubifs_garbage_collect_leb() returns -EAGAIN and enters the "out"
branch, ubifs_return_leb will execute twice on the same lnum. This
can cause data loss in concurrency situations.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 88618fee 14-Nov-2021 Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>

ubifs: fix slab-out-of-bounds in ubifs_change_lp

Hulk Robot reported a KASAN report about slab-out-of-bounds:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ubifs_change_lp+0x3a9/0x1390 [ubifs]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888101c961f8 by task fsstress/1068
[...]
Call Trace:
check_memory_region+0x1c1/0x1e0
ubifs_change_lp+0x3a9/0x1390 [ubifs]
ubifs_change_one_lp+0x170/0x220 [ubifs]
ubifs_garbage_collect+0x7f9/0xda0 [ubifs]
ubifs_budget_space+0xfe4/0x1bd0 [ubifs]
ubifs_write_begin+0x528/0x10c0 [ubifs]

Allocated by task 1068:
kmemdup+0x25/0x50
ubifs_lpt_lookup_dirty+0x372/0xb00 [ubifs]
ubifs_update_one_lp+0x46/0x260 [ubifs]
ubifs_tnc_end_commit+0x98b/0x1720 [ubifs]
do_commit+0x6cb/0x1950 [ubifs]
ubifs_run_commit+0x15a/0x2b0 [ubifs]
ubifs_budget_space+0x1061/0x1bd0 [ubifs]
ubifs_write_begin+0x528/0x10c0 [ubifs]
[...]
==================================================================

In ubifs_garbage_collect(), if ubifs_find_dirty_leb returns an error,
lp is an uninitialized variable. But lp.num might be used in the out
branch, which is a random value. If the value is -1 or another value
that can pass the check, soob may occur in the ubifs_change_lp() in
the following procedure.

To solve this problem, we initialize lp.lnum to -1, and then initialize
it correctly in ubifs_find_dirty_leb, which is not equal to -1, and
ubifs_return_leb is executed only when lp.lnum != -1.

if find a retained or indexing LEB and continue to next loop, but break
before find another LEB, the "taken" flag of this LEB will be cleaned
in ubi_return_lebi(). This bug has also been fixed in this patch.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 4f0f586b 08-Apr-2021 Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

treewide: Change list_sort to use const pointers

list_sort() internally casts the comparison function passed to it
to a different type with constant struct list_head pointers, and
uses this pointer to call the functions, which trips indirect call
Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) checking.

Instead of removing the consts, this change defines the
list_cmp_func_t type and changes the comparison function types of
all list_sort() callers to use const pointers, thus avoiding type
mismatches.

Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-10-samitolvanen@google.com


# 7889042b 14-Sep-2020 Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>

ubifs: Fix some kernel-doc warnings in gc.c

Fixes the following W=1 kernel build warning(s):

fs/ubifs/gc.c:70: warning: Excess function parameter 'buf' description in 'switch_gc_head'
fs/ubifs/gc.c:70: warning: Excess function parameter 'len' description in 'switch_gc_head'
fs/ubifs/gc.c:70: warning: Excess function parameter 'lnum' description in 'switch_gc_head'
fs/ubifs/gc.c:70: warning: Excess function parameter 'offs' description in 'switch_gc_head'

They're not in use. Remove them.

Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 2b27bdcc 29-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 336

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation this program is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
public license along with this program if not write to the free
software foundation inc 51 franklin st fifth floor boston ma 02110
1301 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 246 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190530000436.674189849@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 6f06d96f 07-Sep-2018 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

ubifs: Add auth nodes to garbage collector journal head

To be able to authenticate the garbage collector journal head add
authentication nodes to the buds the garbage collector creates.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 6a98bc46 07-Sep-2018 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

ubifs: Add authentication nodes to journal

Nodes that are written to flash can only be authenticated through the
index after the next commit. When a journal replay is necessary the
nodes are not yet referenced by the index and thus can't be
authenticated.

This patch overcomes this situation by creating a hash over all nodes
beginning from the commit start node over the reference node(s) and
the buds themselves. From
time to time we insert authentication nodes. Authentication nodes
contain a HMAC from the current hash state, so that they can be
used to authenticate a journal replay up to the point where the
authentication node is. The hash is continued afterwards
so that theoretically we would only have to check the HMAC of
the last authentication node we find.

Overall we get this picture:

,,,,,,,,
,......,...........................................
,. CS , hash1.----. hash2.----.
,. | , . |hmac . |hmac
,. v , . v . v
,.REF#0,-> bud -> bud -> bud.-> auth -> bud -> bud.-> auth ...
,..|...,...........................................
, | ,
, | ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
. | hash3,----.
, | , |hmac
, v , v
, REF#1 -> bud -> bud,-> auth ...
,,,|,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
v
REF#2 -> ...
|
V
...

Note how hash3 covers CS, REF#0 and REF#1 so that it is not possible to
exchange or skip any reference nodes. Unlike the picture suggests the
auth nodes themselves are not hashed.

With this it is possible for an offline attacker to cut each journal
head or to drop the last reference node(s), but not to skip any journal
heads or to reorder any operations.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 6eb61d58 12-Jul-2018 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

ubifs: Pass struct ubifs_info to ubifs_assert()

This allows us to have more context in ubifs_assert()
and take different actions depending on the configuration.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 312c39bd 08-Jul-2018 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

ubifs: gc: Fix typo

UBIFS operates on LEBs, not PEBs.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 28e5dfd8 14-May-2018 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

ubifs: gc: Fix typo

"point of view" makes more sense than "point of few". Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# d40a7962 01-Nov-2016 Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

ubifs: Remove some dead code

'ubifs_fast_find_freeable()' can not return an error pointer, so this test
can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# ec037dfc 01-Oct-2016 Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

UBIFS: improve function-level documentation

Fix various inconsistencies in the documentation associated with various
functions.

In the case of fs/ubifs/lprops.c, the second parameter of
ubifs_get_lp_stats was renamed from st to lst in commit 84abf972ccff
("UBIFS: add re-mount debugging checks")

In the case of fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c, the excess variables have never
existed in the associated functions since the code was introduced into the
kernel.

The others appear to be straightforward typos.

Issues detected using Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# 13cd0913 22-Jun-2016 Sylvain Etienne <seti@dadboo.eu>

ubifs: switch_gc_head: Remove redondant sync of wbuf

The wbuf is already sync-ed before ubifs_leb_unmap()

Signed-off-by: Sylvain Etienne <seti@dadboo.eu>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>


# e71d1a59 16-Aug-2013 wang.bo116@zte.com.cn <wang.bo116@zte.com.cn>

UBIFS: remove unnecessary code in ubifs_garbage_collect

In ubifs_garbage_collect,local variable "space_before" calculate twice. In
fact, at the beginning of the loop, there is no need to calculate this
variable. Calculate it before call "ubifs_garbage_collect_leb" is enough. This
patch just remove the unnecessary calculate code.

Signed-off-by: wang bo <wang.bo116@zte.com.cn>
Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# 79fda517 27-Aug-2012 Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

UBIFS: comply with coding style

Join all the split printk lines in order to stop checkpatch complaining.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# b36a261e 14-May-2012 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

UBI: Kill data type hint

We do not need this feature and to our shame it even was not working
and there was a bug found very recently.
-- Artem Bityutskiy

Without the data type hint UBI2 (fastmap) will be easier to implement.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>


# cb14a184 15-May-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: synchronize write-buffer before switching to the next bud

Currently when UBIFS fills up the current bud (which is the last in the journal
head) and switches to the next bud, it first writes the log reference node for
the next bud and only after this synchronizes the write-buffer of the previous
bud. This is not a big deal, but an unclean power cut may lead to a situation
when we have corruption in a next-to-last bud, although it is much more logical
that we have to have corruption only in the last bud.

This patch also removes write-buffer synchronization from
'ubifs_wbuf_seek_nolock()' because this is not needed anymore (we synchronize
the write-buffer explicitly everywhere now) and also because this is just
prone to various errors.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# e9ef7b5f 13-May-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: make 2 functions static

This is a minor change which makes 2 functions static because they
are not used outside the gc.c file: 'data_nodes_cmp()' and
'nondata_nodes_cmp()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 2405f594 26-Apr-2011 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: remove duplicated code

We have duplicated code in 'ubifs_garbage_collect()' and
'ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit()', which is about handling the special case of free
LEB. In both cases we just want to garbage-collect the LEB using
'ubifs_garbage_collect_leb()'.

This patch teaches 'ubifs_garbage_collect_leb()' to handle free LEB's so that
the caller does not have to do this and the duplicated code is removed.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 2ef13294 19-Sep-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: introduce new flags for RO mounts

Commit 2fde99cb55fb9d9b88180512a5e8a5d939d27fec "UBIFS: mark VFS SB RO too"
introduced regression. This commit made UBIFS set the 'MS_RDONLY' flag in the
VFS superblock when it switches to R/O mode due to an error. This was done
to make VFS show the R/O UBIFS flag in /proc/mounts.

However, several places in UBIFS relied on the 'MS_RDONLY' flag and assume this
flag can only change when we re-mount. For example, 'ubifs_put_super()'.

This patch introduces new UBIFS flag - 'c->ro_mount' which changes only when
we re-mount, and preserves the way UBIFS was originally mounted (R/W or R/O).
This allows us to de-initialize UBIFS cleanly in 'ubifs_put_super()'.

This patch also changes all 'ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media)' assertions to
'ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media && !c->ro_mount)', because we never should write
anything if the FS was mounter R/O.

All the places where we test for 'MS_RDONLY' flag in the VFS SB were changed
and now we test the 'c->ro_mount' flag instead, because it preserves the
original UBIFS mount type, unlike the 'MS_RDONLY' flag.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 2680d722 17-Sep-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: introduce new flag for RO due to errors

The R/O state may have various reasons:

1. The UBI volume is R/O
2. The FS is mounted R/O
3. The FS switched to R/O mode because of an error

However, in UBIFS we have only one variable which represents cases
1 and 3 - 'c->ro_media'. Indeed, we set this to 1 if we switch to
R/O mode due to an error, and then we test it in many places to
make sure that we stop writing as soon as the error happens.

But this is very unclean. One consequence of this, for example, is
that in 'ubifs_remount_fs()' we use 'c->ro_media' to check whether
we are in R/O mode because on an error, and we print a message
in this case. However, if we are in R/O mode because the media
is R/O, our message is bogus.

This patch introduces new flag - 'c->ro_error' which is set when
we switch to R/O mode because of an error. It also changes all
"if (c->ro_media)" checks to "if (c->ro_error)" checks, because
this is what the checks actually mean. We do not need to check
for 'c->ro_media' because if the UBI volume is in R/O mode, we
do not allow R/W mounting, and now writes can happen. This is
guaranteed by VFS. But it is good to double-check this, so this
patch also adds many "ubifs_assert(!c->ro_media)" checks.

In the 'ubifs_remount_fs()' function this patch makes a bit more
changes - it fixes the error messages as well.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 3bb66b47 07-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: introduce list sorting debugging checks

The UBIFS bug in the GC list sorting comparison functions inspired
me to write internal debugging check functions which verify that
the list of nodes is sorted properly.

So, this patch implements 2 new debugging functions:
o 'dbg_check_data_nodes_order()' - check order of data nodes list
o 'dbg_check_nondata_nodes_order()' - check order of non-data nodes list

The debugging functions are executed only if general UBIFS debugging checks are
enabled. And they are compiled out if UBIFS debugging is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 1a9476a7 07-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fix assertion warnings in comparison function

When running the integrity test ('integck' from mtd-utils) on current
UBIFS on 2.6.35, I see that assertions in UBIFS 'list_sort()' comparison
functions trigger sometimes, e.g.:

UBIFS assert failed in data_nodes_cmp at 132 (pid 28311)

My investigation showed that this happens when 'list_sort()' calls the 'cmp()'
function with equivalent arguments. In this case, the 'struct list_head'
parameter, passed to 'cmp()' is bogus, and it does not belong to any element in
the original list.

And this issue seems to be introduced by commit:

commit 835cc0c8477fdbc59e0217891d6f11061b1ac4e2
Author: Don Mullis <don.mullis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 5 13:43:15 2010 -0800

It is easy to work around the issue by doing:

if (a == b)
return 0;

in UBIFS. It works, but 'lib_sort()' should nevertheless be fixed. Although it
is harmless to have this piece of code in UBIFS.

This patch adds that code to both UBIFS 'cmp()' functions:
'data_nodes_cmp()' and 'nondata_nodes_cmp()'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 66576833 07-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: improve assertion in node comparison functions

Improve assertions in gc.c in the comparison functions for 'list_sort()': check
key types _and_ node types.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# ab87118d 07-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: do not use key type in list_sort

In comparison function for 'list_sort()' we use key type to distinguish between
node types. However, we have a bit simper way to detect node type -
'snod->type'. This more logical to use, comparing to decoding key types. Also
allows to get rid of 2 local variables.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 44ec83b8 06-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: do not look up truncation nodes

When moving nodes in GC, do not try to look up truncation nodes in TNC,
because they do not exist there. This would be harmless, because the TNC
look-up would fail, if we did not have bug 'ubifs_add_snod()' which reads
garbage into 'snod->key'. But in any case, it is less error prone to
explicitly ignore everything but inode, data, dentry and xentry nodes.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# e3408ad4 04-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fix assertion warning

This patch fixes the following false assertion warning:

UBIFS assert failed in data_nodes_cmp at 130 (pid 15107)

The assertion was wrong because it did not take into account that the
node can be an xentry.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# efe1881f 04-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: do not treat ENOSPC specially

'ubifs_garbage_collect_leb()' should never return '-ENOSPC', and if it
does, this is an error. Thus, do not treat this error code specially.
'-EAGAIN' is a special error code, but not '-ENOSPC'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 5ffef88f 04-Aug-2010 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: switch to RO mode after synchronizing

In 'ubifs_garbage_collect()' on error path, we first switch to R/O mode, and
then synchronize write-buffers (to make sure no data are lost). But the GC
write-buffer synchronization will fail, because we are already in R/O mode.
This patch re-orders this and makes sure we first synchronize the write-buffer,
and then switch to R/O mode.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 5a0e3ad6 24-Mar-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.

2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>


# 2c761270 11-Jan-2010 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>

lib: Introduce generic list_sort function

There are two copies of list_sort() in the tree already, one in the DRM
code, another in ubifs. Now XFS needs this as well. Create a generic
list_sort() function from the ubifs version and convert existing users
to it so we don't end up with yet another copy in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 348709ba 25-Aug-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: do not print scary error messages needlessly

At the moment UBIFS print large and scary error messages and
flash dumps in case of nearly any corruption, even if it is
a recoverable corruption. For example, if the master node is
corrupted, ubifs_scan() prints error dumps, then UBIFS recovers
just fine and goes on.

This patch makes UBIFS print scary error messages only in
real cases, which are not recoverable. It adds 'quiet' argument
to the 'ubifs_scan()' function, so the caller may ask 'ubi_scan()'
not to print error messages if the caller is able to do recovery.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>


# f10770f5 08-Mar-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fully sort GCed nodes

The 'joinup()' function cannot deal with situations when nodes
go in reverse order - it just leaves them in this order. This
patch implement full nodes sorting using n*log(n) algorithm.
It sorts data nodes for bulk-read, and direntry nodes for
readdir().

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# b466f17d 28-Jan-2009 Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

UBIFS: remount ro fixes

- preserve the idx_gc list - it will be needed in the same
state, should UBIFS be remounted rw again
- prevent remounting ro if we have switched to read only
mode (due to a fatal error)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 227c75c9 29-Jan-2009 Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

UBIFS: spelling fix 'date' -> 'data'

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# e4d9b6cb 23-Jan-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: fix LEB list freeing

When freeing the c->idx_lebs list, we have to release the LEBs as well,
because we might be called from mount to read-only mode code. Otherwise
the LEBs stay taken forever, which may cause problems when we re-mount
back ro RW mode.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 7078202e 19-Jan-2009 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: document dark_wm and dead_wm better

Just add more commentaries. Also some commentary fixes for
lprops flags.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 025dfdaf 16-Oct-2008 Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>

trivial: fix then -> than typos in comments and documentation

- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# 46773be4 10-Sep-2008 Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

UBIFS: improve garbage collection

Make garbage collection try to keep data nodes from the same
inode together and in ascending order. This improves
performance when reading those nodes especially when bulk-read
is used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>


# 8d47aef4 21-Aug-2008 Hirofumi Nakagawa <hnakagawa@miraclelinux.com>

UBIFS: remove unneeded unlikely()

IS_ERR() macro already has unlikely(), so do not use constructions
like 'if (unlikely(IS_ERR())'.

Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa <hnakagawa@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 6dcfac4f 11-Sep-2008 Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

UBIFS: TNC / GC race fixes

- update GC sequence number if any nodes may have been moved
even if GC did not finish the LEB
- don't ignore error return when reading

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>


# 601c0bc4 22-Aug-2008 Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>

UBIFS: allow for racing between GC and TNC

The TNC mutex is unlocked prematurely when reading leaf nodes
with non-hashed keys. This is unsafe because the node may be
moved by garbage collection and the eraseblock unmapped, although
that has never actually happened during stress testing.

This patch fixes the flaw by detecting the race and retrying with
the TNC mutex locked.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>


# 1e51764a 14-Jul-2008 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

UBIFS: add new flash file system

This is a new flash file system. See
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>