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NeilBrown
7b1e35f6d6 [PATCH] md: allow hot-adding devices to arrays with non-persistant superblocks.
It is possibly (and occasionally useful) to have a raid1 without persistent
superblocks.  The code in add_new_disk for adding a device to such an array
always tries to read a superblock.

This will obviously fail.

So do the appropriate test and call md_import_device with
appropriate args.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:11 -07:00
NeilBrown
3178b0dbdf [PATCH] md: do not set mddev->bitmap until bitmap is fully initialised
When hot-adding a bitmap, bitmap_daemon_work could get called while the bitmap
is being created, so don't set mddev->bitmap until the bitmap is ready.

This requires freeing the bitmap inside bitmap_create if creation failed
part-way through.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:11 -07:00
NeilBrown
585f0dd5a9 [PATCH] md: make sure bitmap_daemon_work actually does work.
The 'lastrun' time wasn't being initialised, so it could be half a
jiffie-cycle before it seemed to be time to do work again.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:11 -07:00
NeilBrown
9e6603da9b [PATCH] md: raid1_quiesce is back to front, fix it.
A state of 0 mean 'not quiesced'
A state of 1 means 'is quiesced'

The original code got this wrong.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:10 -07:00
NeilBrown
15945fee6f [PATCH] md: support md/linear array with components greater than 2 terabytes.
linear currently uses division by the size of the smallest componenet device
to find which device a request goes to.  If that smallest device is larger
than 2 terabytes, then the division will not work on some systems.

So we introduce a pre-shift, and take care not to make the hash table too
large, much like the code in raid0.

Also get rid of conf->nr_zones, which is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:10 -07:00
NeilBrown
4b6d287f62 [PATCH] md: add write-behind support for md/raid1
If a device is flagged 'WriteMostly' and the array has a bitmap, and the
bitmap superblock indicates that write_behind is allowed, then write_behind is
enabled for WriteMostly devices.

Write requests will be acknowledges as complete to the caller (via b_end_io)
when all non-WriteMostly devices have completed the write, but will not be
cleared from the bitmap until all devices complete.

This requires memory allocation to make a local copy of the data being
written.  If there is insufficient memory, then we fall-back on normal write
semantics.

Signed-Off-By: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:10 -07:00
NeilBrown
8ddf9efe67 [PATCH] md: support write-mostly device in raid1
This allows a device in a raid1 to be marked as "write mostly".  Read requests
will only be sent if there is no other option.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:10 -07:00
NeilBrown
36fa30636f [PATCH] md: all hot-add and hot-remove of md intent logging bitmaps
Both file-bitmaps and superblock bitmaps are supported.

If you add a bitmap file on the array device, you lose.

This introduces a 'default_bitmap_offset' field in mddev, as the ioctl used
for adding a superblock bitmap doesn't have room for giving an offset.  Later,
this value will be setable via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:10 -07:00
NeilBrown
6a07997fc3 [PATCH] md: improve handling of bitmap initialisation.
When we find a 'stale' bitmap, possibly because it is new, we should just
assume every bit needs to be set, but rather base the setting of bits on the
current state of the array (degraded and recovery_cp).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:09 -07:00
NeilBrown
1923b99a0f [PATCH] md: don't allow new md/bitmap file to be set if one already exists
... otherwise we loose a reference and can never free the file.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:09 -07:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
844e8d904a [PATCH] dm: fix rh_dec()/rh_inc() race in dm-raid1.c
Fix another bug in dm-raid1.c that the dirty region may stay in or be moved
to clean list and freed while in use.

It happens as follows:

   CPU0                                   CPU1
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   rh_dec()
     if (atomic_dec_and_test(pending))
        <the region is still marked dirty>
                                          rh_inc()
                                            if the region is clean
                                               mark the region dirty
                                               and remove from clean list
        mark the region clean
        and move to clean list
                                                  atomic_inc(pending)

At this stage, the region is in clean list and will be mistakenly reclaimed
by rh_update_states() later.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:09 -07:00
NeilBrown
e5dcdd80a6 [PATCH] md: fail IO request to md that require a barrier.
md does not yet support BIO_RW_BARRIER, so be honest about it and fail
(-EOPNOTSUPP) any such requests.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:09 -07:00
NeilBrown
3ec67ac1a3 [PATCH] md: fix minor error in raid10 read-balancing calculation.
'this_sector' is a virtual (array) address while 'head_position' is a physical
(device) address, so substraction doesn't make any sense.  devs[slot].addr
should be used instead of this_sector.

However, this patch doesn't make much practical different to the read
balancing due to the effects of later code.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 16:39:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
486a153f0e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-09 15:46:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c8550ee25 Remove "must_check" attributes in PCI-land
Don't just irritate all other kernel developers.  Fix the users first,
then you can re-introduce the must-check infrastructure to avoid new
cases creeping in.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 15:43:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ac5b8b6f22 Preempt-safe RCU file usage
Fix up fs/compat.c fixes.
2005-09-09 15:42:34 -07:00
Daniel Ritz
f0eca9626c [PATCH] Update PCI IOMEM allocation start
This fixes the problem with "Averatec 6240 pcmcia_socket0: unable to
apply power", which was due to the CardBus IOMEM register region being
allocated at an address that was actually inside the RAM window that had
been reserved for video frame-buffers in an UMA setup.

The BIOS _should_ have marked that region reserved in the e820 memory
descriptor tables, but did not.

It is fixed by rounding up the default starting address of PCI memory
allocations, so that we leave a bigger gap after the final known memory
location.  The amount of rounding depends on how big the unused memory
gap is that we can allocate IOMEM from.

Based on example code by Linus.

Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 15:25:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
41d0ab2a7d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2005-09-09 15:17:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a4531edd75 Fix up lost patch in compat_sys_select() for new RCU files world order
Andrew lost this in patch reject resolution, and never noticed, since
the compat code isn't in use on x86.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 15:10:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1d8674edb5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-09 14:25:22 -07:00
Kirill Korotaev
d99901d6fd [PATCH] Lost sockfd_put() in routing_ioctl()
This patch adds lost sockfd_put() in 32bit compat rounting_ioctl() on
64bit platforms

Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Maxim Giryaev <gem@sw.ru>
Signed-off-By: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:24:05 -07:00
Kirill Korotaev
35311d6478 [PATCH] lost fput in 32bit ioctl on x86-64
This adds a lost fput in 32bit tiocgdev ioctl on x86-64

[ chrisw: Updated to use fget_light/fput_light ]

Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Maxim Giryaev <gem@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:19:43 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
f64a227b6b kbuild: um fix so it compile with generic asm-offsets.h support
um has it own set of files for asm-offsets. So for now the
gen-asm-offset macro is just duplicated in the um Makefile.

This may well be the final solution since um is a bit special compared
to other architectures - time will tell.

Also added a dummy arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.h file to keep kbuild happy.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09 23:10:54 +02:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
b95adac775 [PATCH] trivial iomem annotations in qla2xxx/qla_dbg.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:05:54 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
87162a28ac [PATCH] trivial __user annotations (md)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:05:54 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
01703597ea [PATCH] trivial __user annotations (evdev)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:05:54 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
21b2922908 [PATCH] trivial __user cleanup (video1394)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:05:54 -07:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
18fb944257 [PATCH] trivial __user annotations (ipmi)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:05:54 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a9f6a0dd54 [PATCH] more SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED -> DEFINE_SPINLOCK conversions
This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts.  (another 580 places
are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK).  Build tested on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8d06afab73 [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK.  Build and boot-tested on x86.  A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
7c352bdf04 [PATCH] FUSE: don't allow restarting of system calls
This patch removes ability to interrupt and restart operations while there
hasn't been any side-effect.

The reason: applications.  There are some apps it seems that generate
signals at a fast rate.  This means, that if the operation cannot make
enough progress between two signals, it will be restarted for ever.  This
bug actually manifested itself with 'krusader' trying to open a file for
writing under sshfs.  Thanks to Eduard Czimbalmos for the report.

The problem can be solved just by making open() uninterruptible, because in
this case it was the truncate operation that slowed down the progress.  But
it's better to solve this by simply not allowing interrupts at all (except
SIGKILL), because applications don't expect file operations to be
interruptible anyway.  As an added bonus the code is simplified somewhat.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
8254798199 [PATCH] FUSE: add fsync operation for directories
This patch adds a new FSYNCDIR request, which is sent when fsync is called
on directories.  This operation is available in libfuse 2.3-pre1 or
greater.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b36c31ba95 [PATCH] fuse: don't update file times
Don't change mtime/ctime/atime to local time on read/write.  Rather invalidate
file attributes, so next stat() will force a GETATTR call.  Bug reported by
Ben Grimm.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
45323fb764 [PATCH] fuse: more flexible caching
Make data caching behavior selectable on a per-open basis instead of
per-mount.  Compatibility for the old mount options 'kernel_cache' and
'direct_io' is retained in the userspace library (version 2.4.0-pre1 or
later).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
04730fef1f [PATCH] fuse: transfer readdir data through device
This patch removes a long lasting "hack" in FUSE, which used a separate
channel (a file descriptor refering to a disk-file) to transfer directory
contents from userspace to the kernel.

The patch adds three new operations (OPENDIR, READDIR, RELEASEDIR), which
have semantics and implementation exactly maching the respective file
operations (OPEN, READ, RELEASE).

This simplifies the directory reading code.  Also disk space is not
necessary, which can be important in embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
413ef8cb30 [PATCH] FUSE - direct I/O
This patch adds support for the "direct_io" mount option of FUSE.

When this mount option is specified, the page cache is bypassed for
read and write operations.  This is useful for example, if the
filesystem doesn't know the size of files before reading them, or when
any kind of caching is harmful.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
5a53368277 [PATCH] fuse: stricter mount option checking
Check for the presence of all mandatory mount options.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
87729a5514 [PATCH] FUSE: tighten check for processes allowed access
This patch tightens the check for allowing processes to access non-privileged
mounts.  The rational is that the filesystem implementation can control the
behavior or get otherwise unavailable information of the filesystem user.  If
the filesystem user process has the same uid, gid, and is not suid or sgid
application, then access is safe.  Otherwise access is not allowed unless the
"allow_other" mount option is given (for which policy is controlled by the
userspace mount utility).

Thanks to everyone linux-fsdevel, especially Martin Mares who helped uncover
problems with the previous approach.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
db50b96c0f [PATCH] FUSE - readpages operation
This patch adds readpages support to FUSE.

With the help of the readpages() operation multiple reads are bundled
together and sent as a single request to userspace.  This can improve
reading performace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
06663267b4 [PATCH] FUSE: add padding
Add padding to structures to make sizes the same on 32bit and 64bit archs.
Initial testing and test machine generously provided by Franco Broi.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
92a8780e11 [PATCH] FUSE - extended attribute operations
This patch adds the extended attribute operations to FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o getxattr
 o setxattr
 o listxattr
 o removexattr

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
1e9a4ed939 [PATCH] FUSE - mount options
This patch adds miscellaneous mount options to the FUSE filesystem.

The following mount options are added:

 o default_permissions:  check permissions with generic_permission()
 o allow_other:          allow other users to access files
 o allow_root:           allow root to access files
 o kernel_cache:         don't invalidate page cache on open

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b6aeadeda2 [PATCH] FUSE - file operations
This patch adds the file operations of FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o open
 o flush
 o release
 o fsync
 o readpage
 o commit_write

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
9e6268db49 [PATCH] FUSE - read-write operations
This patch adds the write filesystem operations of FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o setattr
 o symlink
 o mknod
 o mkdir
 o create
 o unlink
 o rmdir
 o rename
 o link

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
e5e5558e92 [PATCH] FUSE - read-only operations
This patch adds the read-only filesystem operations of FUSE.

This contains the following files:

 o dir.c
    - directory, symlink and file-inode operations

The following operations are added:

 o lookup
 o getattr
 o readlink
 o follow_link
 o directory open
 o readdir
 o directory release
 o permission
 o dentry revalidate
 o statfs

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
334f485df8 [PATCH] FUSE - device functions
This adds the FUSE device handling functions.

This contains the following files:

 o dev.c
    - fuse device operations (read, write, release, poll)
    - registers misc device
    - support for sending requests to userspace

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
d8a5ba4545 [PATCH] FUSE - core
This patch adds FUSE core.

This contains the following files:

 o inode.c
    - superblock operations (alloc_inode, destroy_inode, read_inode,
      clear_inode, put_super, show_options)
    - registers FUSE filesystem

 o fuse_i.h
    - private header file

Requirements
============

 The most important difference between orinary filesystems and FUSE is
 the fact, that the filesystem data/metadata is provided by a userspace
 process run with the privileges of the mount "owner" instead of the
 kernel, or some remote entity usually running with elevated
 privileges.

 The security implication of this is that a non-privileged user must
 not be able to use this capability to compromise the system.  Obvious
 requirements arising from this are:

  - mount owner should not be able to get elevated privileges with the
    help of the mounted filesystem

  - mount owner should not be able to induce undesired behavior in
    other users' or the super user's processes

  - mount owner should not get illegitimate access to information from
    other users' and the super user's processes

 These are currently ensured with the following constraints:

  1) mount is only allowed to directory or file which the mount owner
    can modify without limitation (write access + no sticky bit for
    directories)

  2) nosuid,nodev mount options are forced

  3) any process running with fsuid different from the owner is denied
     all access to the filesystem

 1) and 2) are ensured by the "fusermount" mount utility which is a
    setuid root application doing the actual mount operation.

 3) is ensured by a check in the permission() method in kernel

 I started thinking about doing 3) in a different way because Christoph
 H. made a big deal out of it, saying that FUSE is unacceptable into
 mainline in this form.

 The suggested use of private namespaces would be OK, but in their
 current form have many limitations that make their use impractical (as
 discussed in this thread).

 Suggested improvements that would address these limitations:

   - implement shared subtrees

   - allow a process to join an existing namespace (make namespaces
     first-class objects)

   - implement the namespace creation/joining in a PAM module

 With all that in place the check of owner against current->fsuid may
 be removed from the FUSE kernel module, without compromising the
 security requirements.

 Suid programs still interesting questions, since they get access even
 to the private namespace causing some information leak (exact
 order/timing of filesystem operations performed), giving some
 ptrace-like capabilities to unprivileged users.  BTW this problem is
 not strictly limited to the namespace approach, since suid programs
 setting fsuid and accessing users' files will succeed with the current
 approach too.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
04578f174f [PATCH] FUSE - MAINTAINERS, Kconfig and Makefile changes
This patch adds FUSE filesystem to MAINTAINERS, fs/Kconfig and
fs/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Ben Dooks
e272d50688 [PATCH] Documentation/sparse snapshot URL
The URL for Documentation/sparse is wrong now that it is in git.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Pekka J Enberg
5ea626aac1 [PATCH] VFS: update documentation
This patch brings the now out-of-date Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
back to life.  Thanks to Carsten Otte, Trond Myklebust, and Anton
Altaparmakov for their help on updating this documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:43 -07:00