The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause

    server# mkdir a
    client# cd a
    server# mv a a.bak
    client# sleep 30  # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
    client# stat .
    stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle

Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
FS_REVAL_DOT set.

nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.

The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
the dcache is still valid.

Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
"weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
special casing.

[AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]

Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

We're currently ignoring errors from vfs_getattr.

The correct thing to do is to do the stat in the main service procedure
not in the response encoding.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

If r_aborted is true, we do not hold the dir i_mutex, and cannot touch
the dcache.  However, we still need to update the inodes with the state
returned by the MDS.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

* calling conventions change - ERR_PTR() is returned on ->d_hash() errors;
NULL is just for dcache miss now.
* exported, open-coded instances in ncpfs and cifs converted.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

caller has both, might as well pass them explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... making v9fs_xattr_set() a wrapper for it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

file argument is a struct file being passed to ->open() or
already opened; none of the checks in lirc_get_pdata()
can fail.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Note that provided ->d_dname() reproduces what we used to get for
those guys in e.g. /proc/self/maps; it might be a good idea to change
that to something less ugly, but for now let's keep the existing
user-visible behaviour
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Right now it's safe only during initial mount *and* functions are asking
to be abused for dynamic adding of objects.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

NOTE: this really needs testing - I could've easily fucked up
refcounting in there.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Its first argument is always non-root, while the second one is
always root.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Running AIO is pinning inode in memory using file reference. Once AIO
is completed using aio_complete(), file reference is put and inode can
be freed from memory. So we have to be sure that calling aio_complete()
is the last thing we do with the inode.

CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... always can be found in nameidata now.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and clean the main loop a bit
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

The last caller was removed >2 years ago in commit 7b2a69ba.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Allocating a file structure in function get_empty_filp() might fail because
of several reasons:
 - not enough memory for file structures
 - operation is not allowed
 - user is over its limit

Currently the function returns NULL in all cases and we loose the exact
reason of the error. All callers of get_empty_filp() assume that the function
can fail with ENFILE only.

Return error through pointer. Change all callers to preserve this error code.

[AV: cleaned up a bit, carved the get_empty_filp() part out into a separate commit
(things remaining here deal with alloc_file()), removed pipe(2) behaviour change]
Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Based on parts from Anatol's patch (the rest is the next commit).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and ask for global CAP_SYS_ADMIN only for superblock-level remounts
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

It's safe only under namespace_sem or vfsmount_lock; all places
in fs/namespace.c that want mnt->mnt_ns->user_ns actually want to use
current->nsproxy->mnt_ns->user_ns (note the calls of check_mnt() in
there).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Pull misc syscall fixes from Al Viro:

 - compat syscall fixes (discussed back in December)

 - a couple of "make life easier for sigaltstack stuff by reducing
   inter-tree dependencies"

 - fix up compiler/asmlinkage calling convention disagreement of
   sys_clone()

 - misc

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  sys_clone() needs asmlinkage_protect
  make sure that /linuxrc has std{in,out,err}
  x32: fix sigtimedwait
  x32: fix waitid()
  switch compat_sys_wait4() and compat_sys_waitid() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch compat_sys_sigaltstack() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK build breakage with asm-generic/syscalls.h
  Ensure that kernel_init_freeable() is not inlined into non __init code

The ia64 function "thread_matches()" has no users since commit
e868a55c ("[IA64] remove find_thread_for_addr()").  Remove it.

This allows us to make ptrace_check_attach() static to kernel/ptrace.c,
which is good since we'll need to change the semantics of it and fix up
all the callers.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Pull USB fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here are 3 USB patches for 3.8-rc4.  Two of them are new device id
  patches, and the third fixes a reported oops in the io_ti USB serial
  driver"

* tag 'usb-3.8-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb:
  USB: io_ti: Fix NULL dereference in chase_port()
  USB: option: add TP-LINK HSUPA Modem MA180
  USB: option: blacklist network interface on ONDA MT8205 4G LTE