Incrementally update my proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely patches so
that they work with struct pid instead of struct task_ref.
Mostly this is a straight 1-1 substitution.
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>
Every inode in /proc holds a reference to a struct task_struct. If a
directory or file is opened and remains open after the the task exits this
pinning continues. With 8K stacks on a 32bit machine the amount pinned per
file descriptor is about 10K.
Normally I would figure a reasonable per user process limit is about 100
processes. With 80 processes, with a 1000 file descriptors each I can trigger
the 00M killer on a 32bit kernel, because I have pinned about 800MB of useless
data.
This patch replaces the struct task_struct pointer with a pointer to a struct
task_ref which has a struct task_struct pointer. The so the pinning of dead
tasks does not happen.
The code now has to contend with the fact that the task may now exit at any
time. Which is a little but not muh more complicated.
With this change it takes about 1000 processes each opening up 1000 file
descriptors before I can trigger the OOM killer. Much better.
[mlp@google.com: task_mmu small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Meda <mlp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently in /proc at several different places we define buffers to hold a
process id, or a file descriptor . In most of them we use either a hard coded
number or a different define. Modify them all to use PROC_NUMBUF, so the code
has a chance of being maintained.
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>
Like the bug Oleg spotted in first_tid there was also a small off by one
error in first_tgid, when a seek was done on the /proc directory. This
fixes that and changes the code structure to make it a little more obvious
what is going on.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since we no longer need the tasklist_lock for get_task_struct the lookup
methods no longer need the tasklist_lock.
This just depends on my previous patch that makes get_task_struct() rcu
safe.
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>
We don't need the tasklist_lock to safely iterate through processes
anymore.
This depends on my previous to task patches that make get_task_struct rcu
safe, and that make next_task() rcu safe. I haven't gotten
first_tid/next_tid yet only because next_thread is missing an
rcu_dereference.
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>
There are a couple of problems this patch addresses.
- /proc/<tgid>/task currently does not work correctly if you stop reading
in the middle of a directory.
- /proc/ currently requires a full pass through the task list with
the tasklist lock held, to determine there are no more processes to read.
- The hand rolled integer to string conversion does not properly running
out of buffer space.
- We seem to be batching reading of pids from the tasklist without reason,
and complicating the logic of the code.
This patch addresses that by changing how tasks are processed. A
first_<task_type> function is built that handles restarts, and a
next_<task_type> function is built that just advances to the next task.
first_<task_type> when it detects a restart usually uses find_task_by_pid. If
that doesn't work because there has been a seek on the directory, or we have
already given a complete directory listing, it first checks the number tasks
of that type, and only if we are under that count does it walk through all of
the tasks to find the one we are interested in.
The code that fills in the directory is simpler because there is only a single
for loop.
The hand rolled integer to string conversion is replaced by snprintf which
should handle the the out of buffer case correctly.
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>
proc_lookup and task exiting are not synchronized, although some of the
previous code may have suggested that. Every time before we reuse a dentry
namei.c calls d_op->derevalidate which prevents us from reusing a stale dcache
entry. Unfortunately it does not prevent us from returning a stale dcache
entry. This race has been explicitly plugged in proc_pid_lookup but there is
nothing to confine it to just that proc lookup function.
So to prevent the race I call revalidate explictily in all of the proc lookup
functions after I call d_add, and report an error if the revalidate does not
succeed.
Years ago Al Viro did something similar but those changes got lost in the
churn.
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>
To keep the dcache from filling up with dead /proc entries we flush them on
process exit. However over the years that code has gotten hairy with a
dentry_pointer and a lock in task_struct and misdocumented as a correctness
feature.
I have rewritten this code to look and see if we have a corresponding entry in
the dcache and if so flush it on process exit. This removes the extra fields
in the task_struct and allows me to trivially handle the case of a
/proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> entry as well as the current /proc/<pid> entries.
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>
All of the functions for proc_maps_operations are already defined in
task_mmu.c so move the operations structure to keep the functionality
together.
Since task_nommu.c implements a dummy version of /proc/<pid>/maps give it a
simplified version of proc_maps_operations that it can modify to best suit its
needs.
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>
Use getattr to get an accurate link count when needed. This is cheaper and
more accurate than trying to derive it by walking the thread list of a
process.
Especially as it happens when needed stat instead of at readdir time.
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>
Long ago and far away in 2.2 we started checking to ensure the files we
displayed in /proc were visible to the current process. It was an
unsophisticated time and no one was worried about functions full of FIXMES in
a stable kernel. As time passed the function became sacred and was enshrined
in the shrine of how things have always been. The fixes came in but only to
keep the function working no one really remembering or documenting why we did
things that way.
The intent and the functionality make a lot of sense. Don't let /proc be an
access point for files a process can see no other way. The implementation
however is completely wrong.
We are currently checking the root directories of the two processes, we are
not checking the actual file descriptors themselves.
We are strangely checking with a permission method instead of just when we use
the data.
This patch fixes the logic to actually check the file descriptors and make a
note that implementing a permission method for this part of /proc almost
certainly indicates a bug in the reasoning.
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>
The inode operations only exist to support the proc_permission function.
Currently mem_read and mem_write have all the same permission checks as
ptrace. The fs check makes no sense in this context, and we can trivially get
around it by calling ptrace.
So simply the code by killing the strange weird case.
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>
First we can access every /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> directory as /proc/<pid> so
proc_task_permission is not usefully limiting visibility.
Second having related filesystems information should have nothing to do with
process visibility. kill does not implement any checks like that.
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>
The sole renaming use of proc_inode.type is to discover the file descriptor
number, so just store the file descriptor number and don't wory about
processing this field. This removes any /proc limits on the maximum number of
file descriptors, and clears the path to make the hard coded /proc inode
numbers go away.
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>
Currently in /proc if the task is dumpable all of files are owned by the tasks
effective users. Otherwise the files are owned by root. Unless it is the
/proc/<tgid>/ or /proc/<tgid>/task/<pid> directory in that case we always make
the directory owned by the effective user.
However the special case for directories is pointless except as a way to read
the effective user, because the permissions on both of those directories are
world readable, and executable.
/proc/<tgid>/status provides a much better way to read a processes effecitve
userid, so it is silly to try to provide that on the directory.
So this patch simplifies the code by removing a pointless special case and
gets us one step closer to being able to remove the hard coded /proc inode
numbers.
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>
The removed fields are already set by proc_alloc_inode. Initializing them in
proc_alloc_inode implies they need it for proper cleanup. At least ei->pde
was not set on all paths making it look like proc_alloc_inode was buggy. So
just remove the redundant assignments.
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>
We already call everything except do_proc_readlink outside of the BKL in
proc_pid_followlink, and there appears to be nothing in do_proc_readlink that
needs any special protection.
So remove this leftover from one of the BKL cleanup efforts.
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>
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>
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>
Add the IOCTLs of the Gigaset drivers to compat_ioctl.h in order to make
them available for 32 bit programs on 64 bit platforms. Please merge.
Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>
Acked-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds "-o bh" option to force use of buffer_heads. This option
is needed when we make "nobh" as default - and if we run into problems.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a /proc/<pid>/attr/keycreate entry that stores the appropriate context for
newly-created keys. Modify the selinux_key_alloc hook to make use of the new
entry. Update the flask headers to include a new "setkeycreate" permission
for processes. Update the flask headers to include a new "create" permission
for keys. Use the create permission to restrict which SIDs each task can
assign to newly-created keys. Add a new parameter to the security hook
"security_key_alloc" to indicate whether it is being invoked by the kernel, or
from userspace. If it is being invoked by the kernel, the security hook
should never fail. Update the documentation to reflect these changes.
Signed-off-by: Michael LeMay <mdlemay@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B) under fs/.
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Cc: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to
list_move(A, B).
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts list_add(A, B.prev) to list_add_tail(A, &B) for
readability.
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
AOLed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
CIFS takes/releases f_owner.lock - why? It does not change anything in the
fowner state. Remove this locking.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
We lose property writing functionality for the time being, but
that will be easy to add back. The code and framework is so
much simpler now.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
binfmt_flat.c calls set_personality with PER_LINUX as the personality.
On the arm architecture this results in the program running in 26bit
usermode. PER_LINUX_32BIT should be used instead. This doesn't affect
other architectures that use binfmt_flat.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Trond had apparently merged the same patch twice, causing a duplicate
include of the "internal.h" file, with resulting obvious confusion.
Tssk. I'm the only one allowed to send out trees that don't even
compile! Who does this Trond guy think he is?
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
likely profiling shows that the following is a miss.
After boot:
[+- ] Type | # True | # False | Function:Filename@Line
+unlikely | 1074| 0 prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409
After a bonnie++ run:
+unlikely | 66716| 19584 prune_dcache()@:fs/dcache.c@409
So remove it.
Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Things which force me think a little: why so?
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When the linkat() syscall was added the flag parameter was added in the
last minute but it wasn't used so far. The following patch should change
that. My tests show that this is all that's needed.
If OLDNAME is a symlink setting the flag causes linkat to follow the
symlink and create a hardlink with the target. This is actually the
behavior POSIX demands for link() as well but Linux wisely does not do
this. With this flag (which will most likely be in the next POSIX
revision) the programmer can choose the behavior, defaulting to the safe
variant. As a side effect it is now possible to implement a
POSIX-compliant link(2) function for those who are interested.
touch file
ln -s file symlink
linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", 0)
-> newlink is hardlink of symlink
linkat(fd, "symlink", fd, "newlink", AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW)
-> newlink is hardlink of file
The value of AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW is determined by the definition we already
use in glibc.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If you do a poll() call with timeout -1, the wait will be a big number
(depending on HZ) instead of infinite wait, since -1 is passed to the
msecs_to_jiffies function.
Signed-off-by: Frode Isaksen <frode.isaksen@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
%s is only valid if array is known to contain NUL or precision is given and
does not exceed the size of array.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update smbiod to use kthread instead of deprecated kernel_thread.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
coverity found two needless checks in vfs_inode.c (cid #1165 and #1164)
In both cases inode is always NULL when we goto error; either because it
is still initialized to NULL or is set to NULL explicitly. This patch
simply removes these checks to save some code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
VFS uses current->files pointer as lock owner ID, and it wouldn't be
prudent to expose this value to userspace. So scramble it with XTEA using
a per connection random key, known only to the kernel. Only one direction
needs to be implemented, since the ID is never sent in the reverse
direction.
The XTEA algorithm is implemented inline since it's simple enough to do so,
and this adds less complexity than if the crypto API were used.
Thanks to Jesper Juhl for the idea.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add synchronous request interruption. This is needed for file locking
operations which have to be interruptible. However filesystem may implement
interruptibility of other operations (e.g. like NFS 'intr' mount option).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rename the 'interrupted' flag to 'aborted', since it indicates exactly that,
and next patch will introduce an 'interrupted' flag for a
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
All POSIX locks owned by the current task are removed on close(). If the
FLUSH request resulting initiated by close() fails to reach userspace, there
might be locks remaining, which cannot be removed.
The only reason it could fail, is if allocating the request fails. In this
case use the request reserved for RELEASE, or if that is currently used by
another FLUSH, wait for it to become available.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds POSIX file locking support to the fuse interface.
This implementation doesn't keep any locking state in kernel. Unlocking on
close() is handled by the FLUSH message, which now contains the lock owner id.
Mandatory locking is not supported. The filesystem may enfoce mandatory
locking in userspace if needed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a control filesystem to fuse, replacing the attributes currently exported
through sysfs. An empty directory '/sys/fs/fuse/connections' is still created
in sysfs, and mounting the control filesystem here provides backward
compatibility.
Advantages of the control filesystem over the previous solution:
- allows the object directory and the attributes to be owned by the
filesystem owner, hence letting unpriviled users abort the
filesystem connection
- does not suffer from module unload race
[akpm@osdl.org: fix this fs for recent dhowells depredations]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix 64-bit printk warnings]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Don't put requests into the background when a fatal interrupt occurs while the
request is in userspace. This removes a major wart from the implementation.
Backgrounding of requests was introduced to allow breaking of deadlocks.
However now the same can be achieved by aborting the filesystem through the
'abort' sysfs attribute.
This is a change in the interface, but should not cause problems, since these
kinds of deadlocks never happen during normal operation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I've found a case where invalid dentrys in a mount tree, waiting to be
cleaned up by d_invalidate, prevent the expected expire.
In this case dentrys created during a lookup for which a mount fails or has
no entry in the mount map contribute to the d_count of the parent dentry.
These dentrys may not be invalidated prior to comparing the interanl usage
count of valid autofs dentrys against the dentry d_count which makes a
mount tree appear busy so it doesn't expire.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In the course of trying to track down a bug where a file mtime was not
being updated correctly, it was discovered that the m/ctime updates were
not quite being handled correctly for ftruncate() calls.
Quoth SUSv3:
open(2):
If O_TRUNC is set and the file did previously exist, upon
successful completion, open() shall mark for update the st_ctime
and st_mtime fields of the file.
truncate(2):
Upon successful completion, if the file size is changed, this
function shall mark for update the st_ctime and st_mtime fields
of the file, and the S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits of the file mode
may be cleared.
ftruncate(2):
Upon successful completion, if fildes refers to a regular file,
the ftruncate() function shall mark for update the st_ctime and
st_mtime fields of the file and the S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits of
the file mode may be cleared. If the ftruncate() function is
unsuccessful, the file is unaffected.
The open(O_TRUNC) and truncate cases were being handled correctly, but the
ftruncate case was being handled like the truncate case. The semantics of
truncate and ftruncate don't quite match, so ftruncate needs to be handled
slightly differently.
The attached patch addresses this issue for ftruncate(2).
My thanx to Stephen Tweedie and Trond Myklebust for their help in
understanding the situation and semantics.
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric W. Biederman