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868 Commits

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Al Viro
192eaa28ba [PATCH] missing ERR_PTR in 9fs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-30 08:42:23 -07:00
Kostik Belousov
411b67b4b6 [PATCH] readv/writev syscalls are not checked by lsm
it seems that readv(2)/writev(2) syscalls do not call
file_permission callback. Looks like this is overlook.

I have filled the issue into redhat bugzilla as
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169433
and got the recommendation to post this on lsm mailing list.

The following trivial patch solves the problem.

Signed-off-by: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
2005-09-29 15:42:08 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
e3306dd5f7 [PATCH] epoll: handle timeout overflow
Handle the timeout upper boundary for epoll.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:41 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
0b8dd17762 [PATCH] v9fs: fix races in fid allocation
Fid management cleanup.  The patch attempts to fix the races in dentry's
fid management.

Dentries don't keep the opened fids anymore, they are moved to the file
structs.  Ideally there should be no more than one fid with fidcreate equal
to zero in the dentry's list of fids.

v9fs_fid_create initializes the important fields (fid, fidcreated) before
v9fs_fid is added to the list.  v9fs_fid_lookup returns only fids that are
not created by v9fs_create.  v9fs_fid_get_created returns the fid created
by the same process by v9fs_create (if any) and removes it from dentry's
list

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Chris Sykes
dc7b5fd6b0 [PATCH] Fix ext3_new_inode() failure paths
Fix failure paths in ext3_new_inode() and clean up duplicated code: -
DQUOT_DROP() was not being called if ext3_init_security() failed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Sykes <chris@sigsegv.plus.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Chris Sykes
9ed6c2fb34 [PATCH] Fix ext2_new_inode() failure paths
Fix failure paths in ext2_new_inode() and clean up duplicated code: -
DQUOT_DROP() was not being called if ext2_init_security() failed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Sykes <chris@sigsegv.plus.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
ee4e52719c [PATCH] fuse: check reserved node ID values
This patch checks reserved node ID values returned by lookup and creation
operations.  In case one of the reserved values is sent, return -EIO.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
909021ea7a [PATCH] fuse: add required version info
Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes.  Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.

Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov
e2fcc61ef0 NTFS: Re-fix sparse warnings in a more correct way, i.e. don't use an enum with
different types in it but #define the two constants instead.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-26 17:02:41 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
e8c2cd99a3 Merge branch 'master' of /home/src/linux-2.6/ 2005-09-26 10:50:29 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
5a8c0cc32b NTFS: More $LogFile handling fixes: when chkdsk has been run, it can leave the
restart pages in the journal without multi sector transfer protection
      fixups (i.e. the update sequence array is empty and in fact does not
      exist).

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-26 10:48:54 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
838bf9675a NTFS: Fix the definition of the CHKD ntfs record magic. It had an off by
two error causing it to be CHKB instead of CHKD.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-26 10:45:46 +01:00
Steve French
ede1327ea4 [PATCH] cifs: Add support for suspend
cifsd had been preventing software suspend from completing.

Signed-off-by: pavel@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>  lightly modified
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-23 11:37:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bfab08c097 Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6 2005-09-23 07:40:53 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov
715dc636b6 NTFS: Change ntfs_cluster_free() to require a write locked runlist on entry
since we otherwise get into a lock reversal deadlock if a read locked
      runlist is passed in. In the process also change it to take an ntfs
      inode instead of a vfs inode as parameter.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-23 11:24:28 +01:00
Nick Wilson
10d2c46f94 [PATCH] NFS: fix client oops when debugging is on
nfs_readpage_release() causes an oops while accessing a file with NFS
debugging turned on (echo 32767 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug) and a kernel
built with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB.

This patch moves the debugging statement above nfs_release_request() to
avoid accessing freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Nick Wilson <njw@osdl.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:37 -07:00
Glauber de Oliveira Costa
8bdac5d1ed [PATCH] ext3: EXT3_DEBUG build fixes
Fix some warnings and a build error when EXT3_DEBUG is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:37 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
275abf5b06 [PATCH] ext3: ext3_show_options fix
EXT3_MOUNT_DATA_FLAGS is not a boolean. This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:35 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
f71626a461 [PATCH] v9fs: don't free root dentry & inode if error occurs in v9fs_get_sb
If error occurs while in v9fs_get_sb after it calles sget, the dentry object
of the root and its inode may be freed twice -- once while handling the error
in v9fs_get_sb, and second time when v9fs_get_sb calles deactivate_super
(which in turn calls v9fs_kill_super)

The patch removes the unnecessary code that frees the root dentry and its
inode.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a1f9d8d23f [PATCH] v9fs: replace strlen on newly allocated by __getname buffers to PATH_MAX
v9fs_vfs_readlink allocates space for the link using __getname and
errorneously uses strlen on the newly allocated buffer to check if the buffer
passed by the user is bigger than the one returned by __getname.

The patch replaces the strlen usage to PATH_MAX, which is the actual size of
the buffers returned by __getname.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
a8e63bff52 [PATCH] v9fs: make copy of the transport prototype instead of using it directly
When a new session is created it uses a template object of the specified
transport type to instantiate its own copy.  The code for the making a copy of
the template object was lost, and the object itself is attached to the v9fs
session.  This leads to many sessions using the same transport instead of
having their own copy.

The patch puts back the code that makes a copy of the template object.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
5b06767623 [PATCH] v9fs: allocate the Rwalk qid array from the right conv buffer
When v9fs_deserealize_fcall deserializes a Rwalk message, it incorrectly
allocates space for the qid array in the source instead of the destination
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Latchesar Ionkov
d06a8fb130 [PATCH] v9fs: make conv functions to check for conv buffer overflow
buf_check_size function checks if the conv buffer has enough space for the
performed operation, but it doesn't return the result back to the calling
function, only logs an error in the log.

The report-back-error functionality was lost when buf_check_size was
converted from macro to inline function. The return in the macro used to
exit from the functions that include it, after the conversion it just exits
from the inline function itself.

The patch makes buf_check_size to return flag and all functions that use
it check if they should perform the operation, or exit.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Andrew Morton
0678e5feaa [PATCH] proc_task_root_link c99 fix
fs/proc/base.c: In function `proc_task_root_link':
fs/proc/base.c:364: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:33 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov
91fbc6edfa NTFS: Fix sparse warnings that have crept in over time.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-22 13:26:44 +01:00
Stephane Kardas
62a36c43c8 [PATCH] fat: fix adate
During a forensic analysis on the fat file system, I found than the result for
the last access date on this file system was different between the stat
command and the istat command (package tct-utils).

The istat command display a true date (the right windows date) but the stat
primitive (so stat, find, ls command) displays a wrong date.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:12:18 -07:00
Sripathi Kodi
66dcca0628 [PATCH] Fix invisible threads problem
When the main thread of a thread group has done pthread_exit() and died,
the other threads are still happily running, but will not be visible
under /proc because their leader is no longer accessible.

This fixes the access control so that we can see the sub-threads again.

Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 09:15:34 -07:00
Dave Kleikamp
438282d85d JFS: don't dereference tlck->ip from txUpdateMap
The inode pointer may no longer be valid

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
2005-09-20 14:58:11 -05:00
Anton Altaparmakov
eed8b2dee7 NTFS: More runlist handling fixes from Richard Russon and myself.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-20 14:19:30 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f805fbdaac Make fsnotify possibly work better for the inode removal case
Checking i_nlink is dubious, but the alternatives look even
less appetizing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-19 19:54:29 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov
044a500e46 Merge branch 'master' of /home/src/linux-2.6/ 2005-09-19 09:47:49 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
f6098cf449 NTFS: Fix ntfs_{read,write}page() to cope with concurrent truncates better.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-19 09:41:39 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
4e64c88693 NTFS: Fix handling of compressed directories that I broke in earlier changeset.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-19 09:38:41 +01:00
Anton Altaparmakov
5c9f6de3b8 NTFS: Fix various bugs in the runlist merging code. (Based on libntfs
changes by Richard Russon.)

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-09-19 09:33:40 +01:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
ef402268f7 [PATCH] FAT: miss-sync issues on sync mount (miss-sync on write)
This patch fixes miss-sync issue on write() system call.  This updates
inode attrs flags, mtime and ctime on every comit_write call, due to
locking.

Signed-off-by: Hiroyuki Machida <machida@sm.sony.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
4fb3a53860 [PATCH] files: fix preemption issues
With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock().  There are some places where we
aren't doing either.  This patch fixes those places.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Zach Brown
a464adeb7e [PATCH] Add smp_mb__after_clear_bit() to unlock_kiocb()
Add smp_mb__after_clear_bit() to unlock_kiocb()

AIO's use of wait_on_bit_lock()/wake_up_bit() forgot to add a barrier
between clearing its lock bit and calling wake_up_bit() so wake_up_bit()'s
unlocked waitqueue_active() can race.  This puts AIO's use in line with the
others and the comment above wake_up_bit().

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
53d2be79d5 [PATCH] epoll: fix delayed initialization bug
Al found a potential problem in epoll_create(), where the
file->private_data member was set after fd_install().  This is obviously
wrong since another thread might do a close() on that fd# before we set the
file->private_data member.  This goes over 2.6.13 and passes a few basic
tests I've done here.

(akpm: snuck in a kzalloc() cleanup too)

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Dave Kleikamp
6cb1269b96 JFS: Fix sparse warnings, including endian error
The fix in inode.c is a real bug.  It could result in undeleted, yet
unconnected files on big-endian hardware.

The others are trivial.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
2005-09-15 23:25:41 -05:00
David S. Miller
4a805e863d [COMPAT]: Fixup compat_do_execve()
Missing acct_update_integrals() and update_mem_hiwater() calls
compared to it's native counterpart.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-14 21:40:00 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
0b175a7e68 [PATCH] Fix the fdtable freeing in the case of vmalloced fdset/arrays
Noted by David Miller:

  "The bug is that free_fd_array() takes a "num" argument, but when
   calling it from __free_fdtable() we're instead passing in the size in
   bytes (ie.  "num * sizeof(struct file *)")."

Yes it is a bug. I think I messed it up while merging newer
changes with an older version where I was using size in bytes
to optimize.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 12:38:26 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
2fd4ef85e0 [PATCH] error path in setup_arg_pages() misses vm_unacct_memory()
Pavel Emelianov and Kirill Korotaev observe that fs and arch users of
security_vm_enough_memory tend to forget to vm_unacct_memory when a
failure occurs further down (typically in setup_arg_pages variants).

These are all users of insert_vm_struct, and that reservation will only
be unaccounted on exit if the vma is marked VM_ACCOUNT: which in some
cases it is (hidden inside VM_STACK_FLAGS) and in some cases it isn't.

So x86_64 32-bit and ppc64 vDSO ELFs have been leaking memory into
Committed_AS each time they're run.  But don't add VM_ACCOUNT to them,
it's inappropriate to reserve against the very unlikely case that gdb
be used to COW a vDSO page - we ought to do something about that in
do_wp_page, but there are yet other inconsistencies to be resolved.

The safe and economical way to fix this is to let insert_vm_struct do
the security_vm_enough_memory check when it finds VM_ACCOUNT is set.

And the MIPS irix_brk has been calling security_vm_enough_memory before
calling do_brk which repeats it, doubly accounting and so also leaking.
Remove that, and all the fs and arch calls to security_vm_enough_memory:
give it a less misleading name later on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 11:18:13 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
fb085cf1d4 [PATCH] Fix fs/exec.c:788 (de_thread()) BUG_ON
It turns out that the BUG_ON() in fs/exec.c: de_thread() is unreliable
and can trigger due to the test itself being racy.

de_thread() does
 	while (atomic_read(&sig->count) > count) {
	}
	.....
	.....
	BUG_ON(!thread_group_empty(current));

but release_task does
	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock)
	__exit_signal
		(this is where atomic_dec(&sig->count) is run)
	__exit_sighand
	__unhash_process
		takes write lock on tasklist_lock
		remove itself out of PIDTYPE_TGID list
	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)

so there's a clear (although small) window between the
atomic_dec(&sig->count) and the actual PIDTYPE_TGID unhashing of the
thread.

And actually there is no need for all threads to have exited at this
point, so we simply kill the BUG_ON.

Big thanks to Marc Lehmann who provided the test-case.

Fixes Bug 5170 (http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5170)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 10:26:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5d54e69c68 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/audit-2.6 2005-09-13 09:47:30 -07:00
Neil Brown
73aea4ecd3 [PATCH] nfsd4: fix setclientid unlock of unlocked state lock
We could try to unlock the state lock here without having first locked it.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Neil Brown
b59e3c0e17 [PATCH] nfsd4: fix open seqid incrementing in lock
In the case of a lock which introduces a new lockowner, the openowner's
sequence id should be incremented, even when the operation fails, if the
error is a sequence-id-mutating error.  The current code fails to do that
in some cases.  Fix this by using the same sequence-id-incrementing
mechanism that all other such operations use.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Neil Brown
f2327d9adb [PATCH] nfsd4: move replay_owner
It seems more natural to move the setting of the replay_owner into the
relevant procedure instead of doing it in nfsv4_proc_compound.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:31 -07:00
Neil Brown
849823c52d [PATCH] nfsd4: printk reduction
Demote some printk's that look like they could be triggered by non-buggy
clients to dprintk's.  (For example, stale clientid's are normal
occurrences on reboot, and on a server with a lot of clients these messages
could become annoying.)

Also remove some redundant dprintk's (e.g. no need for both STALE_CLIENTID
and its callers to do dprintks).

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:31 -07:00
Chris Mason
9f03783ce5 [PATCH] reiserfs: use mark_inode_dirty instead of reiserfs_update_sd
reiserfs should use mark_inode_dirty during reiserfs_file_write and
reiserfs_commit_write.  This makes sure the inode is properly flagged as
dirty, which is used during O_SYNC to decide when to trigger log commits.

This patch also removes the O_SYNC check from reiserfs_commit_write, since
that gets dealt with properly at higher layers once we start using
mark_inode_dirty.

Thanks to Hifumi Hisashi <hifumi.hisashi@lab.ntt.co.jp> for catching this.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
Peter Staubach
a1a5b3d93c [PATCH] open returns ENFILE but creates file anyway
When open(O_CREAT) is called and the error, ENFILE, is returned, the file
may be created anyway.  This is counter intuitive, against the SUS V3
specification, and may cause applications to misbehave if they are not
coded correctly to handle this semantic.  The SUS V3 specification
explicitly states "No files shall be created or modified if the function
returns -1.".

The error, ENFILE, is used to indicate the system wide open file table is
full and no more file structs can be allocated.

This is due to an ordering problem.  The entry in the directory is created
before the file struct is allocated.  If the allocation for the file struct
fails, then the system call must return an error, but the directory entry
was already created and can not be safely removed.

The solution to this situation is relatively easy.  The file struct should
be allocated before the directory entry is created.  If the allocation
fails, then the error can be returned directly.  If the creation of the
directory entry fails, then the file struct can be easily freed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:28 -07:00