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Michael Halcrow
88b4a07e66 [PATCH] eCryptfs: Public key transport mechanism
This is the transport code for public key functionality in eCryptfs.  It
manages encryption/decryption request queues with a transport mechanism.
Currently, netlink is the only implemented transport.

Each inode has a unique File Encryption Key (FEK).  Under passphrase, a File
Encryption Key Encryption Key (FEKEK) is generated from a salt/passphrase
combo on mount.  This FEKEK encrypts each FEK and writes it into the header of
each file using the packet format specified in RFC 2440.  This is all
symmetric key encryption, so it can all be done via the kernel crypto API.

These new patches introduce public key encryption of the FEK.  There is no
asymmetric key encryption support in the kernel crypto API, so eCryptfs pushes
the FEK encryption and decryption out to a userspace daemon.  After
considering our requirements and determining the complexity of using various
transport mechanisms, we settled on netlink for this communication.

eCryptfs stores authentication tokens into the kernel keyring.  These tokens
correlate with individual keys.  For passphrase mode of operation, the
authentication token contains the symmetric FEKEK.  For public key, the
authentication token contains a PKI type and an opaque data blob managed by
individual PKI modules in userspace.

Each user who opens a file under an eCryptfs partition mounted in public key
mode must be running a daemon.  That daemon has the user's credentials and has
access to all of the keys to which the user should have access.  The daemon,
when started, initializes the pluggable PKI modules available on the system
and registers itself with the eCryptfs kernel module.  Userspace utilities
register public key authentication tokens into the user session keyring.
These authentication tokens correlate key signatures with PKI modules and PKI
blobs.  The PKI blobs contain PKI-specific information necessary for the PKI
module to carry out asymmetric key encryption and decryption.

When the eCryptfs module parses the header of an existing file and finds a Tag
1 (Public Key) packet (see RFC 2440), it reads in the public key identifier
(signature).  The asymmetrically encrypted FEK is in the Tag 1 packet;
eCryptfs puts together a decrypt request packet containing the signature and
the encrypted FEK, then it passes it to the daemon registered for the
current->euid via a netlink unicast to the PID of the daemon, which was
registered at the time the daemon was started by the user.

The daemon actually just makes calls to libecryptfs, which implements request
packet parsing and manages PKI modules.  libecryptfs grabs the public key
authentication token for the given signature from the user session keyring.
This auth tok tells libecryptfs which PKI module should receive the request.
libecryptfs then makes a decrypt() call to the PKI module, and it passes along
the PKI block from the auth tok.  The PKI uses the blob to figure out how it
should decrypt the data passed to it; it performs the decryption and passes
the decrypted data back to libecryptfs.  libecryptfs then puts together a
reply packet with the decrypted FEK and passes that back to the eCryptfs
module.

The eCryptfs module manages these request callouts to userspace code via
message context structs.  The module maintains an array of message context
structs and places the elements of the array on two lists: a free and an
allocated list.  When eCryptfs wants to make a request, it moves a msg ctx
from the free list to the allocated list, sets its state to pending, and fires
off the message to the user's registered daemon.

When eCryptfs receives a netlink message (via the callback), it correlates the
msg ctx struct in the alloc list with the data in the message itself.  The
msg->index contains the offset of the array of msg ctx structs.  It verifies
that the registered daemon PID is the same as the PID of the process that sent
the message.  It also validates a sequence number between the received packet
and the msg ctx.  Then, it copies the contents of the message (the reply
packet) into the msg ctx struct, sets the state in the msg ctx to done, and
wakes up the process that was sleeping while waiting for the reply.

The sleeping process was whatever was performing the sys_open().  This process
originally called ecryptfs_send_message(); it is now in
ecryptfs_wait_for_response().  When it wakes up and sees that the msg ctx
state was set to done, it returns a pointer to the message contents (the reply
packet) and returns.  If all went well, this packet contains the decrypted
FEK, which is then copied into the crypt_stat struct, and life continues as
normal.

The case for creation of a new file is very similar, only instead of a decrypt
request, eCryptfs sends out an encrypt request.

> - We have a great clod of key mangement code in-kernel.  Why is that
>   not suitable (or growable) for public key management?

eCryptfs uses Howells' keyring to store persistent key data and PKI state
information.  It defers public key cryptographic transformations to userspace
code.  The userspace data manipulation request really is orthogonal to key
management in and of itself.  What eCryptfs basically needs is a secure way to
communicate with a particular daemon for a particular task doing a syscall,
based on the UID.  Nothing running under another UID should be able to access
that channel of communication.

> - Is it appropriate that new infrastructure for public key
> management be private to a particular fs?

The messaging.c file contains a lot of code that, perhaps, could be extracted
into a separate kernel service.  In essence, this would be a sort of
request/reply mechanism that would involve a userspace daemon.  I am not aware
of anything that does quite what eCryptfs does, so I was not aware of any
existing tools to do just what we wanted.

>   What happens if one of these daemons exits without sending a quit
>   message?

There is a stale uid<->pid association in the hash table for that user.  When
the user registers a new daemon, eCryptfs cleans up the old association and
generates a new one.  See ecryptfs_process_helo().

> - _why_ does it use netlink?

Netlink provides the transport mechanism that would minimize the complexity of
the implementation, given that we can have multiple daemons (one per user).  I
explored the possibility of using relayfs, but that would involve having to
introduce control channels and a protocol for creating and tearing down
channels for the daemons.  We do not have to worry about any of that with
netlink.

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:36 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
730c385bc5 [PATCH] Remove unused kernel config option ZISOFS_FS
Remove the kernel config option ZISOFS_FS, since it appears that the actual
option is simply ZISOFS.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 11:18:06 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
f71aa8a55a [PATCH] ocfs2: drop INET from Kconfig, not needed
OCFS2: drop 'depends on INET' since local mounts are now allowed.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-02-07 12:14:27 -08:00
Josh Boyer
163ca88b9c [PATCH] Make JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN
Mark JFFS as broken and provide a warning to users that it is deprecated
and scheduled for removal in 2.6.21

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22 08:55:48 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
bef1f40261 kconfig: Standardize "depends" -> "depends on" in Kconfig files
Standardize the miniscule percentage of occurrences of "depends" in
Kconfig files to "depends on", and update kconfig-language.txt to
reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-12-12 20:04:19 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
d23edbd3d5 EXT{2,3,4}_FS: remove outdated part of the help text
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-12-12 19:07:45 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
03a67a46af Fix typos in doc and comments
Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know
persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can
spell in more than one correct way, let me know.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:32:19 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
3cb2fccc5f Fix misc Kconfig typos
Fix various Kconfig typos.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:22:59 +01:00
David Howells
64aaa4f8b7 [PATCH] AFS: Amend the AFS configuration options
Amend the text of AFS configuration options.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
bcbaecbb99 [CRYPTO] users: Select ECB/CBC where needed
CRYPTO_MANAGER is selected automatically by CONFIG_ECB and CONFIG_CBC.

config CRYPTO_ECB
        tristate "ECB support"
        select CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER
        select CRYPTO_MANAGER


I've added CONFIG_ECB to the ones you mentioned and CONFIG_CBC to
gssapi.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-10-25 16:51:05 +10:00
Randy Dunlap
f2fbc6c2da [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: move GENERIC_ACL, fix acl() call errors
GENERIC_ACL shouldn't be under Network File Systems (which made it depend
on NET) as far as I can tell.  Having it there and having many (FS) config
symbols disabled gives this (which the patch fixes):

mm/built-in.o: In function `shmem_check_acl':
shmem_acl.c:(.text.shmem_check_acl+0x33): undefined reference to `posix_acl_permission'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_get':
(.text.generic_acl_get+0x30): undefined reference to `posix_acl_to_xattr'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_set':
(.text.generic_acl_set+0x75): undefined reference to `posix_acl_from_xattr'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_set':
(.text.generic_acl_set+0x94): undefined reference to `posix_acl_valid'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_set':
(.text.generic_acl_set+0xc1): undefined reference to `posix_acl_equiv_mode'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_init':
(.text.generic_acl_init+0x7a): undefined reference to `posix_acl_clone'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_init':
(.text.generic_acl_init+0xb4): undefined reference to `posix_acl_clone'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_init':
(.text.generic_acl_init+0xc8): undefined reference to `posix_acl_create_masq'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_chmod':
(.text.generic_acl_chmod+0x49): undefined reference to `posix_acl_clone'
fs/built-in.o: In function `generic_acl_chmod':
(.text.generic_acl_chmod+0x76): undefined reference to `posix_acl_chmod_masq'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
12e36b2f41 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (27 commits)
  [CIFS] Missing flags2 for DFS
  [CIFS] Workaround incomplete byte length returned by some
  [CIFS] cifs Kconfig: don't select CONNECTOR
  [CIFS] Level 1 QPathInfo needed for proper OS2 support
  [CIFS] fix typo in previous patch
  [CIFS] Fix old DOS time conversion to handle timezone
  [CIFS] Do not need to adjust for Jan/Feb for leap day
  [CIFS] Fix leaps year calculation for years after 2100
  [CIFS] readdir (ffirst) enablement of accurate timestamps from legacy servers
  [CIFS] Fix compiler warning with previous patch
  [CIFS] Fix typo
  [CIFS] Allow for 15 minute TZs (e.g. Nepal) and be more explicit about
  [CIFS] Fix readdir of large directories for backlevel servers
  [CIFS] Allow LANMAN21 support even in both POSIX non-POSIX path
  [CIFS] Make use of newer QFSInfo dependent on capability bit instead of
  [CIFS] Do not send newer QFSInfo to legacy servers which can not support it
  [CIFS] Fix typo in name of new cifs_show_stats
  [CIFS] Rename server time zone field
  [CIFS] Handle legacy servers which return undefined time zone
  [CIFS] CIFS support for /proc/<pid>/mountstats part 1
  ...

Manual conflict resolution in fs/cifs/connect.c
2006-10-13 08:09:29 -07:00
Andrew Morton
230a03950e [CIFS] cifs Kconfig: don't select CONNECTOR
`select' is a bit obnoxious: the option keeps on coming back
and it's hard to work out what to do to make it go away again.
The use of `depends on' is preferred (although it has
usability problems too..)

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2006-10-12 15:07:55 +00:00
Mingming Cao
dab291af8d [PATCH] jbd2: enable building of jbd2 and have ext4 use it rather than jbd
Reworked from a patch by Mingming Cao and Randy Dunlap

Signed-off-By: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:16 -07:00
Mingming Cao
02ea2104c5 [PATCH] ext4: enable building of ext4
Originally part of a patch from Mingming Cao and Randy Dunlap.  Reorganized
by Shaggy.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4a61f17378 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6: (292 commits)
  [GFS2] Fix endian bug for de_type
  [GFS2] Initialize SELinux extended attributes at inode creation time.
  [GFS2] Move logging code into log.c (mostly)
  [GFS2] Mark nlink cleared so VFS sees it happen
  [GFS2] Two redundant casts removed
  [GFS2] Remove uneeded endian conversion
  [GFS2] Remove duplicate sb reading code
  [GFS2] Mark metadata reads for blktrace
  [GFS2] Remove iflags.h, use FS_
  [GFS2] Fix code style/indent in ops_file.c
  [GFS2] streamline-generic_file_-interfaces-and-filemap gfs fix
  [GFS2] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead (gfs bits)
  [GFS2] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
  [GFS2] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private (gfs)
  [GFS2] Fix typo in last patch
  [GFS2] Fix direct i/o logic in filemap.c
  [GFS2] Fix bug in Makefiles for lock modules
  [GFS2] Remove (extra) fs_subsys declaration
  [GFS2/DLM] Fix trailing whitespace
  [GFS2] Tidy up meta_io code
  ...
2006-10-04 09:06:16 -07:00
Michael Halcrow
237fead619 [PATCH] ecryptfs: fs/Makefile and fs/Kconfig
eCryptfs is a stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux.  It is derived from
Erez Zadok's Cryptfs, implemented through the FiST framework for generating
stacked filesystems.  eCryptfs extends Cryptfs to provide advanced key
management and policy features.  eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the
header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between
hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key, and there is no need
to keep track of any additional information aside from what is already in the
encrypted file itself.

[akpm@osdl.org: updates for ongoing API changes]
[bunk@stusta.de: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: alpha build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[tytso@mit.edu: inode-diet updates]
[pbadari@us.ibm.com: generic_file_*_read/write() interface updates]
[rdunlap@xenotime.net: printk format fixes]
[akpm@osdl.org: make slab creation and teardown table-driven]
Signed-off-by: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:24 -07:00
Matt LaPlante
cab00891c5 Still more typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:36:44 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
44c09201a4 more misc typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:34:14 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
cc2e2767f1 Typos in fs/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:22:29 +02:00
Steven Whitehouse
59458f40e2 Merge branch 'master' into gfs2 2006-10-02 08:45:08 -04:00
David Howells
9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
39f0247d38 [PATCH] Access Control Lists for tmpfs
Add access control lists for tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
f0c8bd164e [PATCH] Generic infrastructure for acls
The patches solve the following problem: We want to grant access to devices
based on who is logged in from where, etc.  This includes switching back and
forth between multiple user sessions, etc.

Using ACLs to define device access for logged-in users gives us all the
flexibility we need in order to fully solve the problem.

Device special files nowadays usually live on tmpfs, hence tmpfs ACLs.

Different distros have come up with solutions that solve the problem to
different degrees: SUSE uses a resource manager which tracks login sessions
and sets ACLs on device inodes as appropriate.  RedHat uses pam_console, which
changes the primary file ownership to the logged-in user.  Others use a set of
groups that users must be in in order to be granted the appropriate accesses.

The freedesktop.org project plans to implement a combination of a
console-tracker and a HAL-device-list based solution to grant access to
devices to users, and more distros will likely follow this approach.

These patches have first been posted here on 2 February 2005, and again
on 8 January 2006. We have been shipping them in SLES9 and SLES10 with
no problems reported.  The previous submission is archived here:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/229
   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/230
   http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/231

This patch:

Add some infrastructure for access control lists on in-memory
filesystems such as tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:24 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
185a257f2f Merge branch 'master' into gfs2 2006-09-28 08:29:59 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
b89a81712f [PATCH] sysctl: Allow /proc/sys without sys_sysctl
Since sys_sysctl is deprecated start allow it to be compiled out.  This
should catch any remaining user space code that cares, and paves the way
for further sysctl cleanups.

[akpm@osdl.org: If sys_sysctl() is not compiled-in, emit a warning]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:19 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
363e065c02 [GFS2] Fix up merge of Linus' kernel into GFS2
This fixes up a couple of conflicts when merging up with
Linus' latest kernel. This will hopefully allow GFS2 to
be more easily merged into forthcoming -mm and FC kernels
due to the "one line per header" format now used for the
kernel headers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Conflicts:

	include/linux/Kbuild
	include/linux/kernel.h
2006-09-25 12:26:59 -04:00
Chuck Lever
026ed5c918 NFS: unmark NFS direct I/O as experimental
Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the NFS_DIRECTIO option.

Test plan:
Unset the EXPERIMENTAL kernel build option and check to see that the NFS
direct I/O option is still available.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:25:06 -04:00
Mark Fasheh
02ed8416fe ocfs2: Remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency
Things have been working pretty well for a while now.

We should've probably done this at least one kernel
revision ago, but it doesn't hurt to be paranoid.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-09-20 16:00:06 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
4bf311ddfb Merge branch 'master' 2006-07-17 09:25:26 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
0d10e47f96 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  [CIFS] CIFS_DEBUG2 depends on CIFS
2006-07-13 16:38:58 -07:00
Steve French
8ba10ab128 [CIFS] CIFS_DEBUG2 depends on CIFS
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2006-07-08 02:17:40 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
0a1340c185 Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	include/linux/kernel.h
2006-07-03 10:25:08 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
4ba63adce0 ocfs2: OCFS2_FS must depend on SYSFS
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-06-29 14:56:12 -07:00
Joel Becker
2b388c6790 ocfs2: Compile-time disabling of ocfs2 debugging output.
Give gcc the chance to compile out the debug logging code in ocfs2.
This saves some size at the expense of being able to debug the code.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-06-29 14:48:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
936813a880 Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  [MTD] NAND: Select chip before checking write protect status
  [MTD] CORE mtdchar.c: fix off-by-one error in lseek()
  [MTD] NAND: Fix typo in mtd/nand/ts7250.c
  [JFFS2][XATTR] coexistence between xattr and write buffering support.
  [JFFS2][XATTR] Fix wrong copyright
  [JFFS2][XATTR] Re-define xd->refcnt as atomic_t
  [JFFS2][XATTR] Fix memory leak with jffs2_xattr_ref
  [JFFS2][XATTR] rid unnecessary writing of delete marker.
  [JFFS2][XATTR] Fix ACL bug when updating null xattr by null ACL.
  [JFFS2][XATTR] using 'delete marker' for xdatum/xref deletion
  [MTD] Fix off-by-one error in physmap.c
  [MTD] Remove unused 'nr_banks' variable from ixp2000 map driver
  [MTD NAND] s3c2412 support in s3c2410.c
  [MTD] Initialize 'writesize'
  [MTD] NAND: ndfc fix address offset thinko
  [MTD] NAND: S3C2410 convert prinks to dev_*()s
  [MTD] NAND: Missing fixups
2006-06-27 19:13:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f17a2686b1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  [CIFS] Fix authentication choice so we do not force NTLMv2 unless the
  [CIFS] Fix alignment of unicode strings in previous patch
  [CIFS] Fix allocation of buffers for new session setup routine to allow
  [CIFS] Remove calls to to take f_owner.lock
  [CIFS] remove some redundant null pointer checks
  [CIFS] Fix compile warning when CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL is off
  [CIFS] Enable sec flags on mount for cifs (part one)
  [CIFS] Fix suspend/resume problem which causes EIO on subsequent access to
  [CIFS] fix minor compile warning when config_cifs_weak_security is off
  [CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 5
  [CIFS] Add support for readdir to legacy servers
  [CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 4
  [CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 3
  [CIFS] NTLMv2 support part 2
  [CIFS] Fix mask so can set new cifs security flags properly
  CIFS] Support for older servers which require plaintext passwords - part 2
  [CIFS] Support for older servers which require plaintext passwords
  [CIFS] Fix mapping of old SMB return code Invalid Net Name so it is
  [CIFS] Missing brace
  [CIFS] Do not overwrite aops
  ...
2006-06-27 18:31:57 -07:00
KaiGai Kohei
04510dee3c [JFFS2][XATTR] coexistence between xattr and write buffering support.
Drop '&& !JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER' from fs/Kconfig.
The series of previous patches enables to use those
functionality at same time.

Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-27 16:20:06 +01:00
Herbert Xu
f05e15b594 [PATCH] nfsd kconfig: select things at the closest tristate instead of bool
I noticed recently that my CONFIG_CRYPTO_MD5 turned into a y again instead
of m.  It turns out that CONFIG_NFSD_V4 is selecting it to be y even though
I've chosen to compile nfsd as a module.

In general when we have a bool sitting under a tristate it is better to
select things you need from the tristate rather than the bool since that
allows the things you select to be modules.

The following patch does it for nfsd.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:23 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
69755652c9 [PATCH] Make procfs obligatory except under CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Make procfs non-optional unless EMBEDDED is set, just like sysfs.  procfs
is already de facto required for a large subset of Linux functionality.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:11 -07:00
Evgeniy Dushistov
abf5d15fd2 [PATCH] ufs: easy debug
Currently to turn on debug mode "user" has to edit ~10 files, to turn off he
has to do it again.

This patch introduce such changes:
1)turn on(off) debug messages via ".config"
2)remove unnecessary duplication of code
3)make "UFSD" macros more similar to function
4)fix some compiler warnings

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:03 -07:00
Evgeniy Dushistov
5afb3145c9 [PATCH] ufs: Unmark CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE as BROKEN
To find new bugs, I suggest revert this patch:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/31/275 in -mm tree.

So others can test "write support" of UFS.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:03 -07:00
Steve French
bbe5d235ee Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2006-06-25 15:57:32 +00:00
Al Viro
0c426f26cc [PATCH] ext2 XIP won't build without MMU
Disable Ext2 XIP if the kernel is configured in no-MMU mode as the former
won't build.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d9eaec9e29 Merge branch 'audit.b21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: (25 commits)
  [PATCH] make set_loginuid obey audit_enabled
  [PATCH] log more info for directory entry change events
  [PATCH] fix AUDIT_FILTER_PREPEND handling
  [PATCH] validate rule fields' types
  [PATCH] audit: path-based rules
  [PATCH] Audit of POSIX Message Queue Syscalls v.2
  [PATCH] fix se_sen audit filter
  [PATCH] deprecate AUDIT_POSSBILE
  [PATCH] inline more audit helpers
  [PATCH] proc_loginuid_write() uses simple_strtoul() on non-terminated array
  [PATCH] update of IPC audit record cleanup
  [PATCH] minor audit updates
  [PATCH] fix audit_krule_to_{rule,data} return values
  [PATCH] add filtering by ppid
  [PATCH] log ppid
  [PATCH] collect sid of those who send signals to auditd
  [PATCH] execve argument logging
  [PATCH] fix deadlocks in AUDIT_LIST/AUDIT_LIST_RULES
  [PATCH] audit_panic() is audit-internal
  [PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation
  ...

Manual fixup of conflict in unclude/linux/inotify.h
2006-06-20 15:37:56 -07:00
Amy Griffis
2d9048e201 [PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace support
The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify,
making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's
mechanism for watching inodes.  With these patches, inotify will
maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct
inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a
corresponding struct inode.  The caller registers an event handler and
specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be
called per inotify_watch.

Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-20 05:25:17 -04:00
David Woodhouse
2ba72cb754 [JFFS2] Mark XATTR support as experimental, for now
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-18 10:22:40 +01:00
Steve French
3856a9d443 [CIFS] Fix minor build breaks due to cifs kconfig issues
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2006-06-01 19:38:46 +00:00
Steve French
3979877e56 [CIFS] Support for setting up SMB sessions to legacy lanman servers 2006-05-31 22:40:51 +00:00
KaiGai Kohei
aa98d7cf59 [JFFS2][XATTR] XATTR support on JFFS2 (version. 5)
This attached patches provide xattr support including POSIX-ACL and
SELinux support on JFFS2 (version.5).

There are some significant differences from previous version posted
at last December.
The biggest change is addition of EBS(Erase Block Summary) support.
Currently, both kernel and usermode utility (sumtool) can recognize
xattr nodes which have JFFS2_NODETYPE_XATTR/_XREF nodetype.

In addition, some bugs are fixed.
- A potential race condition was fixed.
- Unexpected fail when updating a xattr by same name/value pair was fixed.
- A bug when removing xattr name/value pair was fixed.

The fundamental structures (such as using two new nodetypes and exclusion
mechanism by rwsem) are unchanged. But most of implementation were reviewed
and updated if necessary.
Espacially, we had to change several internal implementations related to
load_xattr_datum() to avoid a potential race condition.

[1/2] xattr_on_jffs2.kernel.version-5.patch
[2/2] xattr_on_jffs2.utils.version-5.patch

Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-13 15:09:47 +09:00
Steven Whitehouse
a748422ee4 Merge branch 'master' 2006-04-21 12:52:36 -04:00
Arthur Othieno
dda27d1a55 [PATCH] hugetlbfs: add Kconfig help text
In kernel bugzilla #6248 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6248),
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> notes that CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is missing Kconfig
help text.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-19 09:13:50 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
68250ba5df [PATCH] kdump: enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by default
Everybody seems to be using /proc/vmcore as a method to access the kernel
crash dump.  Hence probably it makes sense to enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by
default if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is selected.  This makes kdump configuration
further easier for a user.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:45 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
65714b9184 [PATCH] CONFIGFS_FS must depend on SYSFS
This patch fixes the a compile error with CONFIG_SYSFS=n

Configfs is creating, as a matter of policy, the /sys/kernel/config
mountpoint.  This means it requires CONFIG_SYSFS.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-04-10 11:17:21 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
86579dd06d Merge branch 'master' 2006-03-31 15:34:58 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
1ebbe2b200 Merge branch 'linus' 2006-03-23 23:44:19 -05:00
Jens Axboe
b86ff981a8 [PATCH] relay: migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API
Original patch from Paul Mundt, sysfs parts removed by me since they
were broken.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-03-23 19:56:55 +01:00
J. Bruce Fields
df6db302cb SUNRPC,RPCSEC_GSS: spkm3--fix config dependencies
Add default selection of CRYPTO_CAST5 when selecting RPCSEC_GSS_SPKM3.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-03-20 23:25:10 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
d35462b4bb Merge branch 'master' 2006-02-23 09:49:43 +00:00
Joel Becker
8c5a950c96 o Remove confusing Kconfig text for CONFIGFS_FS.
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-02-03 13:47:17 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
537421be79 [PATCH] Mark CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE as BROKEN
OpenBSD doesn't see "." correctly in directories created by Linux.  Copying
files over several KB will buy you infinite loop in __getblk_slow().
Copying files smaller than 1 KB seems to be OK.  Sometimes files will be
filled with zeros.  Sometimes incorrectly copied file will reappear after
next file with truncated size.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:14 -08:00
David Teigland
e7fd41792f [DLM] The core of the DLM for GFS2/CLVM
This is the core of the distributed lock manager which is required
to use GFS2 as a cluster filesystem. It is also used by CLVM and
can be used as a standalone lock manager independantly of either
of these two projects.

It implements VAX-style locking modes.

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-18 09:30:29 +00:00
David Teigland
f7825dcf8c [GFS2] Hook GFS2 into the Kbuild system
Adds GFS2 into fs/Kconfig and adds a Makefile entry

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-16 16:43:37 +00:00
Maneesh Soni
05970d476f [PATCH] kexec: change CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START dependency
I have heard some complaints about people not finding CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
option and also some objections about its dependency on CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
The following patch ends that dependency.  I thought of hiding it under
CONFIG_KEXEC, but CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START could also be used for some reasons
other than kexec/kdump and hence left it visible.  I will also update the
documentation accordingly.

o Following patch removes the config dependency of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START
  on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. The reason being CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP option for
  kdump needs CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START which makes CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depend
  on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. It is not always obvious for kdump users to choose
  CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

o It also shifts the palce where this option appears, to make it closer
  to kexec and kdump options.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:29 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
51e7a59870 [PATCH] o Update Kconfig documentation to reflect support for readonly mounts.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:57 -08:00
Mark Fasheh
b4e40a5188 [PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem
Link the code into the kernel build system. OCFS2 is marked as
experimental.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:48 -08:00
Joel Becker
7063fbf226 [PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem
Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:28 -08:00
Steve French
1b397f4f1c [CIFS] Fix spaces in cifs kconfig entry
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-10 19:36:39 -08:00
Steve French
a2653ebab3 [CIFS] Reserve upcall IDX value for CIFS with connector header and add
Kconfig option for CIFS upcall.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-10 15:33:38 -08:00
Steve French
e82b3aec8d Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-11-09 14:33:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b3ce1debe2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6
Some manual fixups for clashing kfree() cleanups etc.
2005-11-07 10:24:08 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek
878129a304 [PATCH] hfs needs nls
Reported by Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>

fs/built-in.o(.text+0x35fdc): In function `hfs_mdb_put':
: undefined reference to `unload_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x35ff1): In function `hfs_mdb_put':
: undefined reference to `unload_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x367a5): In function `parse_options':
super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x367db):super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x36938):super.c: undefined reference to `load_nls_default'

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Acked-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:36 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
182ec4eee3 [JFFS2] Clean up trailing white spaces
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-07 14:18:56 +01:00
Ferenc Havasi
e631ddba58 [JFFS2] Add erase block summary support (mount time improvement)
The goal of summary is to speed up the mount time. Erase block summary (EBS)
stores summary information at the end of every (closed) erase block. It is
no longer necessary to scan all nodes separetly (and read all pages of them)
just read this "small" summary, where every information is stored which is
needed at mount time.

This summary information is stored in a JFFS2_FEATURE_RWCOMPAT_DELETE. During
the mount process if there is no summary info the orignal scan process will
be executed. EBS works with NAND and NOR flashes, too.

There is a user space tool called sumtool to generate this summary
information for a JFFS2 image.

Signed-off-by: Ferenc Havasi <havasi@inf.u-szeged.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-06 21:29:48 +01:00
Steve French
ec58ef0328 [CIFS] Update kconfig for cifs
Add cifs extended stats configure option and reduce experimental code.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-04 09:44:33 -08:00
Steve French
cb9dbff92e [CIFS] Make CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL depend on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
It seems logical.

Note that CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL itself doesn't enable any code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-02 11:37:15 -08:00
Brian Gerst
0d078f6f96 [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32
Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386.  This allows selecting options that only apply
to 32-bit systems.

(X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32
(X86 ||  X86_64) becomes X86

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:10 -08:00
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
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
Eric Van Hensbergen
93fa58cb83 [PATCH] v9fs: Documentation, Makefiles, Configuration
OVERVIEW

V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an
implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P.  It can be
used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers
(such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as
FUSE).

BACKGROUND

Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating
system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing
Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of
Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++.
Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made
generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the
foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by
Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial
embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita
Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and
2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public
License in 2003.

The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985.
Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the
shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed
networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought
and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone
systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless
distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing.
Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow
for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an
environment to use remote application components or services in place
of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command
line instructions. For the most part, application implementations
operated independent of the location of their actual resources.

Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years
since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is
provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of
packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by
the use of different complicated protocols for individual services,
and separate implementations for kernel and application resources.
The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring
Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other
operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol.

V9FS HISTORY

V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los
Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997.  In November of 2001, Greg Watson
setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which
supported the Linux 2.4 kernel.

About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had
made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5
kernel.   I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to
clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style
guidelines.  I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux
support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and
PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005
conference in April 2005:
( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ).

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS

Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing
its integration into the official kernel tree.  We would appreciate any
review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are
actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce
something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community.

STATUS

The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases
our regression tests haven't discovered yet.  It is in regular use by several
of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC
(32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments.
Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark.

It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this
release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the
protocol support versus a rich set of features.  For example: a more
complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but
excluded from this release.   Additionally, we have removed support for
mmap operations at Al Viro's request.

PERFORMANCE

Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX
paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file
operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for
many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark.   Somewhat
preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available
(http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html).

RESOURCES

The source code is available in a few different forms:

tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net
CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/
CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p
Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org)
9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564

The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution
or from http://v9fs.sf.net
Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary
version can be downloaded from sourceforge.

Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man
pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is
an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style
specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc).

There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used
is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your
comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the
conversation.  There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs

This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration
file changes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:56 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
919532a545 [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: quota help text updates
This patch contains the following updates to the help texts:
- QUOTA: most people will get the quota utilities from their
         distribution, and if not the mini-HOWTO will tell them
- QFMT_V2: quota utilities 3.01 are no longer recent, they are now
           ancient
           and 3.01 is lower than the minimal version documented in
           Documentation/Changes

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:29 -07:00
Tom Zanussi
e82894f84d [PATCH] relayfs
Here's the latest version of relayfs, against linux-2.6.11-mm2.  I'm hoping
you'll consider putting this version back into your tree - the previous
rounds of comment seem to have shaken out all the API issues and the number
of comments on the code itself have also steadily dwindled.

This patch is essentially the same as the relayfs redux part 5 patch, with
some minor changes based on reviewer comments.  Thanks again to Pekka
Enberg for those.  The patch size without documentation is now a little
smaller at just over 40k.  Here's a detailed list of the changes:

- removed the attribute_flags in relay open and changed it to a
  boolean specifying either overwrite or no-overwrite mode, and removed
  everything referencing the attribute flags.
- added a check for NULL names in relayfs_create_entry()
- got rid of the unnecessary multiple labels in relay_create_buf()
- some minor simplification of relay_alloc_buf() which got rid of a
  couple params
- updated the Documentation

In addition, this version (through code contained in the relay-apps tarball
linked to below, not as part of the relayfs patch) tries to make it as easy
as possible to create the cooperating kernel/user pieces of a typical and
common type of logging application, one where kernel logging is kicked off
when a user space data collection app starts and stops when the collection
app exits, with the data being automatically logged to disk in between.  To
create this type of application, you basically just include a header file
(relay-app.h, included in the relay-apps tarball) in your kernel module,
define a couple of callbacks and call an initialization function, and on
the user side call a single function that sets up and continuously monitors
the buffers, and writes data to files as it becomes available.  Channels
are created when the collection app is started and destroyed when it exits,
not when the kernel module is inserted, so different channel buffer sizes
can be specified for each separate run via command-line options.  See the
README in the relay-apps tarball for details.

Also included in the relay-apps tarball are a couple examples
demonstrating how you can use this to create quick and dirty kernel
logging/debugging applications.  They are:

- tprintk, short for 'tee printk', which temporarily puts a kprobe on
  printk() and writes a duplicate stream of printk output to a relayfs
  channel.  This could be used anywhere there's printk() debugging code
  in the kernel which you'd like to exercise, but would rather not have
  your system logs cluttered with debugging junk.  You'd probably want
  to kill klogd while you do this, otherwise there wouldn't be much
  point (since putting a kprobe on printk() doesn't change the output
  of printk()).  I've used this method to temporarily divert the packet
  logging output of the iptables LOG target from the system logs to
  relayfs files instead, for instance.

- klog, which just provides a printk-like formatted logging function
  on top of relayfs.  Again, you can use this to keep stuff out of your
  system logs if used in place of printk.

The example applications can be found here:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dprobes/relay-apps.tar.gz?download

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

  avoid lookup_hash usage in relayfs

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:18 -07:00
Stephen Smalley
f549d6c18c [PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs
This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to fall
back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem does not
support xattrs natively.  This allows security modules to export the incore
inode security label information to userspace even if the filesystem does
not provide xattr storage, and eliminates the need to individually patch
various pseudo filesystem types to provide such access.  The patch removes
the existing xattr code from devpts and tmpfs as it is then no longer
needed.

The patch restructures the code flow slightly to reduce duplication between
the normal path and the fallback path, but this should only have one
user-visible side effect - a program may get -EACCES rather than
-EOPNOTSUPP if policy denied access but the filesystem didn't support the
operation anyway.  Note that the post_setxattr hook call is not needed in
the fallback case, as the inode_setsecurity hook call handles the incore
inode security state update directly.  In contrast, we do call fsnotify in
both cases.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:52 -07:00
Robert Love
3de11748c1 [PATCH] inotify: update help text
The inotify help text still refers to the character device.  Update it.

Fixes kernel bug #4993.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-04 13:11:15 -07:00
Robert Love
0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
200d481f28 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6 2005-07-11 10:18:18 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
b84c21572d [PATCH] acl kconfig cleanup
Original patch from Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:45 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
7ca6448dbf Merge with rsync://fileserver/linux
Update to Linus latest
2005-06-26 23:20:36 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
666bfddbe8 [PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)
From: "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

o Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image
  either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers
  have been stored by crashed kernel.
o Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option.
o Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore.

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

This patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in
the affected files.  And to clearly indicate the dependency between
/proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c

From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>

This patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the
previous kernel's memory post kexec reboot.

Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:53 -07:00
Carsten Otte
6d79125bba [PATCH] xip: ext2: execute in place
These are the ext2 related parts.  Ext2 now uses the xip_* file operations
along with the get_xip_page aop when mounted with -o xip.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:06:41 -07:00
NeilBrown
a55370a3c0 [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: reboot hash
For the purposes of reboot recovery we keep a directory with subdirectories
each having a name that is the ascii hex representation of the md5 sum of a
client identifier for an active client.

This adds the code to calculate that name.  We also use it for the purposes of
comparing clients, so if someone ever manages to find two client names that
are md5 collisions, then we'll return clid_inuse to the second.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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>
2005-06-24 00:06:33 -07:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
b7fa0554cf [PATCH] NFS: Add support for NFSv3 ACLs
This adds acl support fo nfs clients via the NFSACL protocol extension, by
 implementing the getxattr, listxattr, setxattr, and removexattr iops for the
 system.posix_acl_access and system.posix_acl_default attributes.  This patch
 implements a dumb version that uses no caching (and thus adds some overhead).
 (Another patch in this patchset adds caching as well.)

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:24 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
a257cdd0e2 [PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs.
This adds functions for encoding and decoding POSIX ACLs for the NFSACL
 protocol extension, and the GETACL and SETACL RPCs.  The implementation is
 compatible with NFSACL in Solaris.

 Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
 Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22 16:07:23 -04:00
Greg KH
2c6e5a839f [PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being built
Here's a much smaller patch to simply disable devfs from the build.  If
this goes well, and there are no complaints for a few weeks, I'll resend
my big "devfs-die-die-die" series of patches that rip the whole thing
out of the kernel tree.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 15:41:16 -07:00
Andrew Victor
2f82ce1eb6 [JFFS2] Use a single config option for write buffer support
This patch replaces the current CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_NOR_ECC
and CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DATAFLASH with a single configuration option -
CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER.

The only functional change of this patch is that the slower div/mod
calculations for SECTOR_ADDR(), PAGE_DIV() and PAGE_MOD() are now always
used when CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-05-23 12:29:43 +02:00
Andrew Victor
8f15fd55f9 [JFFS2] Add support for JFFS2-on-Dataflash devices.
For Dataflash, can_mark_obsolete = false and the NAND write buffering
code (wbuf.c) is used.

Since the DataFlash chip will automatically erase pages when writing,
the cleanmarkers are not needed - so cleanmarker_oob = false and
cleanmarker_size = 0

DataFlash page-sizes are not a power of two (they're multiples of 528
bytes).  The SECTOR_ADDR macro (added in the previous core patch) is
replaced with a (slower) div/mod version if CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DATAFLASH is
selected.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-05-23 12:28:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00