1. 09 Jan, 2013 13 commits
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 · 5439ca6b
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o:
       "Various bug fixes for ext4.  Perhaps the most serious bug fixed is one
        which could cause file system corruptions when performing file punch
        operations."
      
      * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
        ext4: avoid hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list
        ext4: lock i_mutex when truncating orphan inodes
        ext4: do not try to write superblock on ro remount w/o journal
        ext4: include journal blocks in df overhead calcs
        ext4: remove unaligned AIO warning printk
        ext4: fix an incorrect comment about i_mutex
        ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()
        ext4: split off ext4_journalled_invalidatepage()
        jbd2: fix assertion failure in jbd2_journal_flush()
        ext4: check dioread_nolock on remount
        ext4: fix extent tree corruption caused by hole punch
      5439ca6b
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      mempolicy: remove arg from mpol_parse_str, mpol_to_str · a7a88b23
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Remove the unused argument (formerly no_context) from mpol_parse_str()
      and from mpol_to_str().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a7a88b23
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      tmpfs mempolicy: fix /proc/mounts corrupting memory · f2a07f40
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Recently I suggested using "mount -o remount,mpol=local /tmp" in NUMA
      mempolicy testing.  Very nasty.  Reading /proc/mounts, /proc/pid/mounts
      or /proc/pid/mountinfo may then corrupt one bit of kernel memory, often
      in a page table (causing "Bad swap" or "Bad page map" warning or "Bad
      pagetable" oops), sometimes in a vm_area_struct or rbnode or somewhere
      worse.  "mpol=prefer" and "mpol=prefer:Node" are equally toxic.
      
      Recent NUMA enhancements are not to blame: this dates back to 2.6.35,
      when commit e17f74af "mempolicy: don't call mpol_set_nodemask() when
      no_context" skipped mpol_parse_str()'s call to mpol_set_nodemask(),
      which used to initialize v.preferred_node, or set MPOL_F_LOCAL in flags.
      With slab poisoning, you can then rely on mpol_to_str() to set the bit
      for node 0x6b6b, probably in the next page above the caller's stack.
      
      mpol_parse_str() is only called from shmem_parse_options(): no_context
      is always true, so call it unused for now, and remove !no_context code.
      Set v.nodes or v.preferred_node or MPOL_F_LOCAL as mpol_to_str() might
      expect.  Then mpol_to_str() can ignore its no_context argument also,
      the mpol being appropriately initialized whether contextualized or not.
      Rename its no_context unused too, and let subsequent patch remove them
      (that's not needed for stable backporting, which would involve rejects).
      
      I don't understand why MPOL_LOCAL is described as a pseudo-policy:
      it's a reasonable policy which suffers from a confusing implementation
      in terms of MPOL_PREFERRED with MPOL_F_LOCAL.  I believe this would be
      much more robust if MPOL_LOCAL were recognized in switch statements
      throughout, MPOL_F_LOCAL deleted, and MPOL_PREFERRED use the (possibly
      empty) nodes mask like everyone else, instead of its preferred_node
      variant (I presume an optimization from the days before MPOL_LOCAL).
      But that would take me too long to get right and fully tested.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f2a07f40