- 18 12月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Uwe Kleine-König 提交于
This was introduced in 4af8e944c22d8af92a7548354a9567250cc1a782 Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 11月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Enable expensive bitmap scanning only if DEBUG option is enabled. The bitmap scanning quite loads the CPU and on my machine the write throughput of dd if=/dev/zero of=/ocfs2/file bs=1M count=500 conv=sync improves from 37 MB/s to 45.4 MB/s in local mode... Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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- 03 11月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jeff Layton 提交于
Add routines to handle upcalls to userspace via keyctl for the purpose of getting a SPNEGO blob for a particular uid and server combination. Clean up the Makefile a bit and set it up to only compile cifs_spnego if CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL is set. Also change CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL to depend on CONFIG_KEYS rather than CONFIG_CONNECTOR. cifs_spnego.h defines the communications between kernel and userspace and is intended to be shared with userspace programs. Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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- 31 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Dirk Hohndel 提交于
Fix links to files in Documentation/* in various Kconfig files Signed-off-by: NDirk Hohndel <hohndel@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jose R. Santos 提交于
The jbd-debug file used to be located in /proc/sys/fs/jbd-debug, but create_proc_entry() does not do lookups on file names that are more that one directory deep. This causes the entry creation to fail and hence, no proc file is created. Instead of fixing this on procfs might as well move the jbd2-debug file to debugfs which would be the preferred location for this kind of tunable. The new location is now /sys/kernel/debug/jbd/jbd-debug. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: zillions of cleanups] Signed-off-by: NJose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Andreas Dilger 提交于
In pass1 of e2fsck, every inode table in the fileystem is scanned and checked, regardless of whether it is in use. This is this the most time consuming part of the filesystem check. The unintialized block group feature can greatly reduce e2fsck time by eliminating checking of uninitialized inodes. With this feature, there is a a high water mark of used inodes for each block group. Block and inode bitmaps can be uninitialized on disk via a flag in the group descriptor to avoid reading or scanning them at e2fsck time. A checksum of each group descriptor is used to ensure that corruption in the group descriptor's bit flags does not cause incorrect operation. The feature is enabled through a mkfs option mke2fs /dev/ -O uninit_groups A patch adding support for uninitialized block groups to e2fsprogs tools has been posted to the linux-ext4 mailing list. The patches have been stress tested with fsstress and fsx. In performance tests testing e2fsck time, we have seen that e2fsck time on ext3 grows linearly with the total number of inodes in the filesytem. In ext4 with the uninitialized block groups feature, the e2fsck time is constant, based solely on the number of used inodes rather than the total inode count. Since typical ext4 filesystems only use 1-10% of their inodes, this feature can greatly reduce e2fsck time for users. With performance improvement of 2-20 times, depending on how full the filesystem is. The attached graph shows the major improvements in e2fsck times in filesystems with a large total inode count, but few inodes in use. In each group descriptor if we have EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT set in bg_flags: Inode table is not initialized/used in this group. So we can skip the consistency check during fsck. EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT set in bg_flags: No block in the group is used. So we can skip the block bitmap verification for this group. We also add two new fields to group descriptor as a part of uninitialized group patch. __le16 bg_itable_unused; /* Unused inodes count */ __le16 bg_checksum; /* crc16(sb_uuid+group+desc) */ bg_itable_unused: If we have EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT not set in bg_flags then bg_itable_unused will give the offset within the inode table till the inodes are used. This can be used by fsck to skip list of inodes that are marked unused. bg_checksum: Now that we depend on bg_flags and bg_itable_unused to determine the block and inode usage, we need to make sure group descriptor is not corrupt. We add checksum to group descriptor to detect corruption. If the descriptor is found to be corrupt, we mark all the blocks and inodes in the group used. Signed-off-by: NAvantika Mathur <mathur@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 17 10月, 2007 4 次提交
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由 Jan Engelhardt 提交于
Turn Network File Systems into a menuconfig so that it can be disabled at once. (Note: I added a "default y". If you do not like that, speak up.) Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Implement sending of quota messages via netlink interface. The advantage is that in userspace we can better decide what to do with the message - for example display a dialogue in your X session or just write the message to the console. As a bonus, we can get rid of problems with console locking deep inside filesystem code once we remove the old printing mechanism. Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Since CONFIG_RAMFS is currently hard-selected to "y", and since Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt reads as follows: "The amount of code required to implement ramfs is tiny, because all the work is done by the existing Linux caching infrastructure. Basically, you're mounting the disk cache as a filesystem. Because of this, ramfs is not an optional component removable via menuconfig, since there would be negligible space savings." It seems pointless to leave this as a Kconfig entry. Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
Allow disabling DNOTIFY with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n. I'm currently running a kernel with dnotify disabled and I haven't run into any problem. Is there any popular application left that breaks without dnotify support in the kernel? Note that this patch does not remove dnotify support, it still defaults to "y", and the help text recommends enabling it. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 \"Talpey, Thomas\ 提交于
Add a dependency on RDMA before enabling SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA Yes, "INFINIBAND" also turns on iWARP and other RDMA support. Signed-off-by: NTom Talpey <talpey@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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由 \"Talpey, Thomas\ 提交于
This file implements the configuration target, protocol template and constants for the rpcrdma transport framing, for use by the xprtrdma rpc transport implementation. Signed-off-by: NTom Talpey <talpey@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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- 12 9月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Mark Fasheh 提交于
Update documentation listing ocfs2 features to reflect the current state of the file system. Add missing descriptions for some mount options which ocfs2 supports. Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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- 02 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 David Woodhouse 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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- 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Trond Myklebust 提交于
Bruce's patch broke the ability to compile RPCSEC_GSS as a module. Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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- 18 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Jose R. Santos 提交于
The jbd2-debug file used to be located in /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug, but it incorrectly used create_proc_entry() instead of the sysctl routines, and no proc entry was ever created. Instead of fixing this we might as well move the jbd2-debug file to debugfs which would be the preferred location for this kind of tunable. The new location is now /sys/kernel/debug/jbd2/jbd2-debug. Signed-off-by: NJose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 J. Bruce Fields 提交于
Select rpcsec_gss support whenever asked for NFSv4 support. The rfc actually requires gss, and gss is also the main reason to migrate to v4. We already do this on the client side. Signed-off-by: N"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 15 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Latchesar Ionkov 提交于
This patchset moves non-filesystem interfaces of v9fs from fs/9p to net/9p. It moves the transport, packet marshalling and connection layers to net/9p leaving only the VFS related files in fs/9p. This work is being done in preparation for in-kernel 9p servers as well as alternate 9p clients (other than VFS). Signed-off-by: NLatchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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- 11 7月, 2007 3 次提交
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由 Richard Purdie 提交于
Add a "favourlzo" compression mode to jffs2 which tries to optimise by size but gives lzo an advantage when comparing sizes. This means the faster lzo algorithm can be preferred when there isn't much difference in compressed size (the exact threshold can be changed). Signed-off-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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由 Richard Purdie 提交于
Add LZO1X compression/decompression support to jffs2. LZO's interface doesn't entirely match that required by jffs2 so a buffer and memcpy is unavoidable. Signed-off-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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由 David Woodhouse 提交于
We've seen some evil corruption issues, where the corruption seems to be introduced after the JFFS2 crc32 is calculated but before the NAND controller calculates the ECC. So it's in RAM or in the PCI DMA transfer; not on the flash. Attempt to catch it earlier by (optionally) reading back from the flash immediately after writing it. Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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- 10 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 David Woodhouse 提交于
Convert many spaces to tabs; one or two other minor cosmetic fixes. Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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- 11 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mundt 提交于
SH can turn CONFIG_MMU on and off, don't let us get to a state where hugetlbfs/hugetlbpage gets built when building for nommu. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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- 09 5月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Alexander E. Patrakov 提交于
The text removed by the following patch refers to functionality that never worked, to non-existing documentation file, and to mount options marked as obsolete in the module. Signed-off-by: NAlexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@ums.usu.ru> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
REISER_FS /proc option needs to depend on PROC_FS. fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_super': fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:134: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'max_hash_collisions' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:134: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'breads' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:135: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'bread_miss' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:135: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'search_by_key' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:136: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'search_by_key_fs_changed' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:136: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'search_by_key_restarted' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:137: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'insert_item_restarted' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:137: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'paste_into_item_restarted' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:138: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'cut_from_item_restarted' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:139: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'delete_solid_item_restarted' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:139: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'delete_item_restarted' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:140: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'leaked_oid' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:140: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'leaves_removable' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_per_level': fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:184: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'balance_at' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:185: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'sbk_read_at' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:186: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'sbk_fs_changed' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:187: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'sbk_restarted' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:188: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'free_at' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:189: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'items_at' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:190: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'can_node_be_removed' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:191: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'lnum' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:192: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'rnum' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:193: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'lbytes' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:194: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'rbytes' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:195: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'get_neighbors' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:196: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'get_neighbors_restart' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:197: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'need_l_neighbor' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:197: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'need_r_neighbor' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_bitmap': fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:224: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'free_block' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:225: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:226: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:227: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:228: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:229: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:230: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:230: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'scan_bitmap' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'show_journal': fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:384: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:385: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:386: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:387: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:388: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:389: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:390: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:391: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:392: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:393: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:394: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:395: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:395: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:395: error: 'reiserfs_proc_info_data_t' has no member named 'journal' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'reiserfs_proc_info_init': fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:504: warning: implicit declaration of function '__PINFO' fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:504: error: request for member 'lock' in something not a structure or union fs/reiserfs/procfs.c: In function 'reiserfs_proc_info_done': fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:544: error: request for member 'lock' in something not a structure or union fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:545: error: request for member 'exiting' in something not a structure or union fs/reiserfs/procfs.c:546: error: request for member 'lock' in something not a structure or union Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Make miscellaneous fixes to AFS and AF_RXRPC: (*) Make AF_RXRPC select KEYS rather than RXKAD or AFS_FS in Kconfig. (*) Don't use FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA. (*) Remove a done 'TODO' item in a comemnt on afs_get_sb(). (*) Don't pass a void * as the page pointer argument of kmap_atomic() as this breaks on m68k. Patch from Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>. (*) Use match_*() functions rather than doing my own parsing. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 01 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Chuck Lever 提交于
Signed-off-by: NChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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- 28 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Fixes for various arch compilation problems: (*) Missing module exports. (*) Variable name collision when rxkad and af_rxrpc both built in (rxrpc_debug). (*) Large constant representation problem (AFS_UUID_TO_UNIX_TIME). (*) Configuration dependencies. (*) printk() format warnings. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 27 4月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Delete the old RxRPC code as it's now no longer used. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC instead of the old RxRPC code. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 18 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Jeff Garzik 提交于
Unmaintained for years, few if any users. Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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- 14 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Steve French 提交于
After temporary server or network failure and reconneciton, we were not resending the unix capabilities via SetFSInfo - which confused Samba posix byte range locking code. Discovered by jra Signed-off-by: NSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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- 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Michael Halcrow 提交于
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: NMichael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 12 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
Remove the kernel config option ZISOFS_FS, since it appears that the actual option is simply ZISOFS. Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 08 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
OCFS2: drop 'depends on INET' since local mounts are now allowed. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
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- 23 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Josh Boyer 提交于
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: NJosh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 13 12月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Robert P. J. Day 提交于
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: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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由 Jan Engelhardt 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Acked-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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- 30 11月, 2006 2 次提交
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由 Jan Engelhardt 提交于
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: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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由 Matt LaPlante 提交于
Fix various Kconfig typos. Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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