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  1. Jul 12, 2015
    • Al Viro's avatar
      freeing unlinked file indefinitely delayed · 75a6f82a
      Al Viro authored 
      

	Normally opening a file, unlinking it and then closing will have
the inode freed upon close() (provided that it's not otherwise busy and
has no remaining links, of course).  However, there's one case where that
does *not* happen.  Namely, if you open it by fhandle with cold dcache,
then unlink() and close().

	In normal case you get d_delete() in unlink(2) notice that dentry
is busy and unhash it; on the final dput() it will be forcibly evicted from
dcache, triggering iput() and inode removal.  In this case, though, we end
up with *two* dentries - disconnected (created by open-by-fhandle) and
regular one (used by unlink()).  The latter will have its reference to inode
dropped just fine, but the former will not - it's considered hashed (it
is on the ->s_anon list), so it will stay around until the memory pressure
will finally do it in.  As the result, we have the final iput() delayed
indefinitely.  It's trivial to reproduce -

void flush_dcache(void)
{
        system("mount -o remount,rw /");
}

static char buf[20 * 1024 * 1024];

main()
{
        int fd;
        union {
                struct file_handle f;
                char buf[MAX_HANDLE_SZ];
        } x;
        int m;

        x.f.handle_bytes = sizeof(x);
        chdir("/root");
        mkdir("foo", 0700);
        fd = open("foo/bar", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0600);
        close(fd);
        name_to_handle_at(AT_FDCWD, "foo/bar", &x.f, &m, 0);
        flush_dcache();
        fd = open_by_handle_at(AT_FDCWD, &x.f, O_RDWR);
        unlink("foo/bar");
        write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
        system("df .");			/* 20Mb eaten */
        close(fd);
        system("df .");			/* should've freed those 20Mb */
        flush_dcache();
        system("df .");			/* should be the same as #2 */
}

will spit out something like
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root         322023 303843      1131 100% /
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root         322023 303843      1131 100% /
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root         322023 283282     21692  93% /
- inode gets freed only when dentry is finally evicted (here we trigger
than by remount; normally it would've happened in response to memory
pressure hell knows when).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38+; earlier ones need s/kill_it/unhash_it/
Acked-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      75a6f82a
    • Al Viro's avatar
      fix a braino in ovl_d_select_inode() · 9391dd00
      Al Viro authored 
      

when opening a directory we want the overlayfs inode, not one from
the topmost layer.

Reported-By: default avatarAndrey Jr. Melnikov <temnota.am@gmail.com>
Tested-By: default avatarAndrey Jr. Melnikov <temnota.am@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      9391dd00
    • Al Viro's avatar
      9p: don't leave a half-initialized inode sitting around · 0a73d0a2
      Al Viro authored 
      

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all branches
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      0a73d0a2
  3. Jul 06, 2015
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 · 1c4c7159
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "Bug fixes (all for stable kernels) for ext4:

   - address corner cases for indirect blocks->extent migration

   - fix reserved block accounting invalidate_page when
     page_size != block_size (i.e., ppc or 1k block size file systems)

   - fix deadlocks when a memcg is under heavy memory pressure

   - fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: replace open coded nofail allocation in ext4_free_blocks()
  ext4: correctly migrate a file with a hole at the beginning
  ext4: be more strict when migrating to non-extent based file
  ext4: fix reservation release on invalidatepage for delalloc fs
  ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp
  bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()
  ext4: fix fencepost error in lazytime optimization
      1c4c7159
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.2-rc1 · d770e558
      Linus Torvalds authored
      v4.2-rc1
      d770e558
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of... · a585d2b7
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86

Pull late x86 platform driver updates from Darren Hart:
 "The following came in a bit later and I wanted them to bake in next a
  few more days before submitting, thus the second pull.

  A new intel_pmc_ipc driver, a symmetrical allocation and free fix in
  dell-laptop, a couple minor fixes, and some updated documentation in
  the dell-laptop comments.

  intel_pmc_ipc:
   - Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver

  tc1100-wmi:
   - Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"

  dell-laptop:
   - Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page
   - Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs
   - Update information about wireless control"

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86:
  intel_pmc_ipc: Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver
  tc1100-wmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
  dell-laptop: Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page
  dell-laptop: Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs
  dell-laptop: Update information about wireless control
      a585d2b7
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      ext4: replace open coded nofail allocation in ext4_free_blocks() · 7444a072
      Michal Hocko authored 
      

ext4_free_blocks is looping around the allocation request and mimics
__GFP_NOFAIL behavior without any allocation fallback strategy. Let's
remove the open coded loop and replace it with __GFP_NOFAIL. Without the
flag the allocator has no way to find out never-fail requirement and
cannot help in any way.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      7444a072
  5. Jul 05, 2015