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Al Viro d4f4de5e5e Fix the locking in dcache_readdir() and friends
There are two problems in dcache_readdir() - one is that lockless traversal
of the list needs non-trivial cooperation of d_alloc() (at least a switch
to list_add_rcu(), and probably more than just that) and another is that
it assumes that no removal will happen without the directory locked exclusive.
Said assumption had always been there, never had been stated explicitly and
is violated by several places in the kernel (devpts and selinuxfs).

        * replacement of next_positive() with different calling conventions:
it returns struct list_head * instead of struct dentry *; the latter is
passed in and out by reference, grabbing the result and dropping the original
value.
        * scan is under ->d_lock.  If we run out of timeslice, cursor is moved
after the last position we'd reached and we reschedule; then the scan continues
from that place.  To avoid livelocks between multiple lseek() (with cursors
getting moved past each other, never reaching the real entries) we always
skip the cursors, need_resched() or not.
        * returned list_head * is either ->d_child of dentry we'd found or
->d_subdirs of parent (if we got to the end of the list).
        * dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() switched to new helper.
dcache_readdir() always holds a reference to dentry passed to dir_emit() now.
Cursor is moved to just before the entry where dir_emit() has failed or into
the very end of the list, if we'd run out.
        * move_cursor() eliminated - it had sucky calling conventions and
after fixing that it became simply list_move() (in lseek and scan_positives)
or list_move_tail() (in readdir).

        All operations with the list are under ->d_lock now, and we do not
depend upon having all file removals done with parent locked exclusive
anymore.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: "zhengbin (A)" <zhengbin13@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-09-22 19:40:10 -04:00
arch The main change here is a revert of reverts. We recently simplified some 2019-09-14 16:07:40 -07:00
block block: remove REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE 2019-08-15 11:09:16 -06:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto USB / PHY patches for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-11 15:40:06 -07:00
Documentation riscv: modify the Image header to improve compatibility with the ARM64 header 2019-09-13 19:03:52 -07:00
drivers virtio: a last minute revert 2019-09-14 16:02:49 -07:00
fs Fix the locking in dcache_readdir() and friends 2019-09-22 19:40:10 -04:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-14 12:20:38 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
ipc ipc: fix sparc64 ipc() wrapper 2019-09-07 21:42:25 +02:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-14 12:20:38 -07:00
lib lib/Kconfig: fix OBJAGG in lib/ menu structure 2019-09-11 09:30:10 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/balloon_compaction: suppress allocation warnings 2019-09-04 07:42:01 -04:00
net sctp: destroy bucket if failed to bind addr 2019-09-13 22:06:20 +02:00
samples auxdisplay: Fix a typo in cfag12864b-example.c 2019-08-08 20:00:18 +02:00
scripts SPDX fixes for 5.3-rc5 2019-08-18 09:26:16 -07:00
security keys: Fix missing null pointer check in request_key_auth_describe() 2019-09-05 14:19:25 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.3-rc8 2019-09-05 10:26:20 -07:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-09-14 12:20:38 -07:00
usr kbuild: enable arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/zcrypt.h for uapi header test 2019-07-23 10:45:46 +02:00
virt arm64 fixes for -rc7 2019-08-28 10:37:21 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: Add compilation database file 2019-07-27 12:18:19 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: add aliases for Dmitry Safonov 2019-08-30 18:00:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Remove references to dead website. 2019-07-19 12:22:04 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: add myself as maintainer for xilinx axiethernet driver 2019-09-06 15:17:16 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.3 2019-09-15 14:19:32 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.