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David Drysdale 75069f2b5b vfs: renumber FMODE_NONOTIFY and add to uniqueness check
Fix clashing values for O_PATH and FMODE_NONOTIFY on sparc.  The
clashing O_PATH value was added in commit 5229645bdc ("vfs: add
nonconflicting values for O_PATH") but this can't be changed as it is
user-visible.

FMODE_NONOTIFY is only used internally in the kernel, but it is in the
same numbering space as the other O_* flags, as indicated by the comment
at the top of include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h (and its use in
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c).  So renumber it to avoid the clash.

All of this has happened before (commit 12ed2e36c9: "fanotify:
FMODE_NONOTIFY and __O_SYNC in sparc conflict"), and all of this will
happen again -- so update the uniqueness check in fcntl_init() to
include __FMODE_NONOTIFY.

Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-08 15:10:52 -08:00
Jeff Layton 0d3f7a2dd2 locks: rename file-private locks to "open file description locks"
File-private locks have been merged into Linux for v3.15, and *now*
people are commenting that the name and macro definitions for the new
file-private locks suck.

...and I can't even disagree. The names and command macros do suck.

We're going to have to live with these for a long time, so it's
important that we be happy with the names before we're stuck with them.
The consensus on the lists so far is that they should be rechristened as
"open file description locks".

The name isn't a big deal for the kernel, but the command macros are not
visually distinct enough from the traditional POSIX lock macros. The
glibc and documentation folks are recommending that we change them to
look like F_OFD_{GETLK|SETLK|SETLKW}. That lessens the chance that a
programmer will typo one of the commands wrong, and also makes it easier
to spot this difference when reading code.

This patch makes the following changes that I think are necessary before
v3.15 ships:

1) rename the command macros to their new names. These end up in the uapi
   headers and so are part of the external-facing API. It turns out that
   glibc doesn't actually use the fcntl.h uapi header, but it's hard to
   be sure that something else won't. Changing it now is safest.

2) make the the /proc/locks output display these as type "OFDLCK"

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2014-04-22 08:23:58 -04:00
Jeff Layton 5d50ffd7c3 locks: add new fcntl cmd values for handling file private locks
Due to some unfortunate history, POSIX locks have very strange and
unhelpful semantics. The thing that usually catches people by surprise
is that they are dropped whenever the process closes any file descriptor
associated with the inode.

This is extremely problematic for people developing file servers that
need to implement byte-range locks. Developers often need a "lock
management" facility to ensure that file descriptors are not closed
until all of the locks associated with the inode are finished.

Additionally, "classic" POSIX locks are owned by the process. Locks
taken between threads within the same process won't conflict with one
another, which renders them useless for synchronization between threads.

This patchset adds a new type of lock that attempts to address these
issues. These locks conflict with classic POSIX read/write locks, but
have semantics that are more like BSD locks with respect to inheritance
and behavior on close.

This is implemented primarily by changing how fl_owner field is set for
these locks. Instead of having them owned by the files_struct of the
process, they are instead owned by the filp on which they were acquired.
Thus, they are inherited across fork() and are only released when the
last reference to a filp is put.

These new semantics prevent them from being merged with classic POSIX
locks, even if they are acquired by the same process. These locks will
also conflict with classic POSIX locks even if they are acquired by
the same process or on the same file descriptor.

The new locks are managed using a new set of cmd values to the fcntl()
syscall. The initial implementation of this converts these values to
"classic" cmd values at a fairly high level, and the details are not
exposed to the underlying filesystem. We may eventually want to push
this handing out to the lower filesystem code but for now I don't
see any need for it.

Also, note that with this implementation the new cmd values are only
available via fcntl64() on 32-bit arches. There's little need to
add support for legacy apps on a new interface like this.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2014-03-31 08:24:43 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields ef12e72a01 locks: fix posix lock range overflow handling
In the 32-bit case fcntl assigns the 64-bit f_pos and i_size to a 32-bit
off_t.

The existing range checks also seem to depend on signed arithmetic
wrapping when it overflows.  In practice maybe that works, but we can be
more careful.  That also allows us to make a more reliable distinction
between -EINVAL and -EOVERFLOW.

Note that in the 32-bit case SEEK_CUR or SEEK_END might allow the caller
to set a lock with starting point no longer representable as a 32-bit
value.  We could return -EOVERFLOW in such cases, but the locks code is
capable of handling such ranges, so we choose to be lenient here.  The
only problem is that subsequent GETLK calls on such a lock will fail
with EOVERFLOW.

While we're here, do some cleanup including consolidating code for the
flock and flock64 cases.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2014-03-31 08:24:42 -04:00
Al Viro ba57ea64cb allow O_TMPFILE to work with O_WRONLY
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-20 03:11:32 +04:00
Al Viro bb458c644a Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
[suggested by Rasmus Villemoes] make O_DIRECTORY | O_RDWR part of O_TMPFILE;
that will fail on old kernels in a lot more cases than what I came up with.
And make sure O_CREAT doesn't get there...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-07-13 13:26:37 +04:00
Al Viro 60545d0d46 [O_TMPFILE] it's still short a few helpers, but infrastructure should be OK now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-06-29 12:57:10 +04:00
David Howells 8a1ab3155c UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
Renamed from include/asm-generic/fcntl.h (Browse further)