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      nilfs2: wait for discard to finish · 1cb0c924
      由 Ryusuke Konishi 提交于 
      nilfs_discard_segment() doesn't wait for completion of discard
requests.  This specifies BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag when calling
blkdev_issue_discard() in order to fix the sync failure.
Reported-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      1cb0c924
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      NFS: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 atomic open code · 0a377cff
      由 Trond Myklebust 提交于 
      Adam Lackorzynski reports:

with 2.6.35.2 I'm getting this reproducible Oops:

[  110.825396] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
(null)
[  110.828638] IP: [<ffffffff811247b7>] encode_attrs+0x1a/0x2a4
[  110.828638] PGD be89f067 PUD bf18f067 PMD 0
[  110.828638] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  110.828638] last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/lo/operstate
[  110.828638] CPU 2
[  110.828638] Modules linked in: rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib amd64_edac_mod
i2c_amd756 edac_core i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_snapshot
sg sr_mod usb_storage ohci_hcd mptspi tg3 mptscsih mptbase usbcore nls_base
[last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[  110.828638]
[  110.828638] Pid: 11264, comm: setchecksum Not tainted 2.6.35.2 #1
[  110.828638] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811247b7>]  [<ffffffff811247b7>]
encode_attrs+0x1a/0x2a4
[  110.828638] RSP: 0000:ffff88003bf5b878  EFLAGS: 00010296
[  110.828638] RAX: ffff8800bddb48a8 RBX: ffff88003bf5bb18 RCX:
0000000000000000
[  110.828638] RDX: ffff8800be258800 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI:
ffff88003bf5b9f8
[  110.828638] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff8800bddb48a8 R09:
0000000000000004
[  110.828638] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff8800be779000 R12:
ffff8800be258800
[  110.828638] R13: ffff88003bf5b9f8 R14: ffff88003bf5bb20 R15:
ffff8800be258800
[  110.828638] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880041e00000(0063)
knlGS:00000000556bd6b0
[  110.828638] CS:  0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b
[  110.828638] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000be8ef000 CR4:
00000000000006e0
[  110.828638] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2:
0000000000000000
[  110.828638] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7:
0000000000000400
[  110.828638] Process setchecksum (pid: 11264, threadinfo
ffff88003bf5a000, task ffff88003f232210)
[  110.828638] Stack:
[  110.828638]  0000000000000000 ffff8800bfbcf920 0000000000000000
0000000000000ffe
[  110.828638] <0> 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000000
[  110.828638] <0> 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
0000000000000000
[  110.828638] Call Trace:
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff81124c1f>] ? nfs4_xdr_enc_setattr+0x90/0xb4
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff81371161>] ? call_transmit+0x1c3/0x24a
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff813774d9>] ? __rpc_execute+0x78/0x22a
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff81371a91>] ? rpc_run_task+0x21/0x2b
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff81371b7e>] ? rpc_call_sync+0x3d/0x5d
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff8111e284>] ? _nfs4_do_setattr+0x11b/0x147
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff81109466>] ? nfs_init_locked+0x0/0x32
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff810ac521>] ? ifind+0x4e/0x90
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff8111e2fb>] ? nfs4_do_setattr+0x4b/0x6e
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff8111e634>] ? nfs4_do_open+0x291/0x3a6
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff8111ed81>] ? nfs4_open_revalidate+0x63/0x14a
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff811056c4>] ? nfs_open_revalidate+0xd7/0x161
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff810a2de4>] ? do_lookup+0x1a4/0x201
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff810a4733>] ? link_path_walk+0x6a/0x9d5
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff810a42b6>] ? do_last+0x17b/0x58e
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff810a5fbe>] ? do_filp_open+0x1bd/0x56e
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff811cd5e0>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x30/0x48
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff810a9b1b>] ? dput+0x37/0x152
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff810ae063>] ? alloc_fd+0x69/0x10a
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff81099f39>] ? do_sys_open+0x56/0x100
[  110.828638]  [<ffffffff81027a22>] ? ia32_sysret+0x0/0x5
[  110.828638] Code: 83 f1 01 e8 f5 ca ff ff 48 83 c4 50 5b 5d 41 5c c3 41
57 41 56 41 55 49 89 fd 41 54 49 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 48 81 ec 18 01 00 00
<8b> 06 89 c2 83 e2 08 83 fa 01 19 db 83 e3 f8 83 c3 18 a8 01 8d
[  110.828638] RIP  [<ffffffff811247b7>] encode_attrs+0x1a/0x2a4
[  110.828638]  RSP <ffff88003bf5b878>
[  110.828638] CR2: 0000000000000000
[  112.840396] ---[ end trace 95282e83fd77358f ]---

We need to ensure that the O_EXCL flag is turned off if the user doesn't
set O_CREAT.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      0a377cff
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      fs: brlock vfsmount_lock · 99b7db7b
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      fs: brlock vfsmount_lock

Use a brlock for the vfsmount lock. It must be taken for write whenever
modifying the mount hash or associated fields, and may be taken for read when
performing mount hash lookups.

A new lock is added for the mnt-id allocator, so it doesn't need to take
the heavy vfsmount write-lock.

The number of atomics should remain the same for fastpath rlock cases, though
code would be slightly slower due to per-cpu access. Scalability is not not be
much improved in common cases yet, due to other locks (ie. dcache_lock) getting
in the way. However path lookups crossing mountpoints should be one case where
scalability is improved (currently requiring the global lock).

The slowpath is slower due to use of brlock. On a 64 core, 64 socket, 32 node
Altix system (high latency to remote nodes), a simple umount microbenchmark
(mount --bind mnt mnt2 ; umount mnt2 loop 1000 times), before this patch it
took 6.8s, afterwards took 7.1s, about 5% slower.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      99b7db7b
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      fs: scale files_lock · 6416ccb7
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      fs: scale files_lock

Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists,
protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists
to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists
(although this is very slow).

One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list
by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new
variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability
could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list.

However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between
adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving
processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the
hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N
cachelines than with 1.

A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs
degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When
more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by
different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case.

Testing results:

On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken
to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that
added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it.

Booting:    locks=  25049 cpu-hits=  23174 (92.5%) node-hits=  23945 (95.6%)
kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%)
dbench 64   locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%)

So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time.
It remains within the same node 95% of the time.

Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile.

                throughput
2.6.34-rc2      24.5
+patch          24.9

                us      sys     idle    IO wait (in %)
2.6.34-rc2      51.25   28.25   17.25   3.25
+patch          53.75   18.5    19      8.75

So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and
slightly higher throughput.

Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks.
That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory
accesses required so it will be slightly slower.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      6416ccb7
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      tty: fix fu_list abuse · d996b62a
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      tty: fix fu_list abuse

tty code abuses fu_list, which causes a bug in remount,ro handling.

If a tty device node is opened on a filesystem, then the last link to the inode
removed, the filesystem will be allowed to be remounted readonly. This is
because fs_may_remount_ro does not find the 0 link tty inode on the file sb
list (because the tty code incorrectly removed it to use for its own purpose).
This can result in a filesystem with errors after it is marked "clean".

Taking idea from Christoph's initial patch, allocate a tty private struct
at file->private_data and put our required list fields in there, linking
file and tty. This makes tty nodes behave the same way as other device nodes
and avoid meddling with the vfs, and avoids this bug.

The error handling is not trivial in the tty code, so for this bugfix, I take
the simple approach of using __GFP_NOFAIL and don't worry about memory errors.
This is not a problem because our allocator doesn't fail small allocs as a rule
anyway. So proper error handling is left as an exercise for tty hackers.

[ Arguably filesystem's device inode would ideally be divorced from the
driver's pseudo inode when it is opened, but in practice it's not clear whether
that will ever be worth implementing. ]

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      d996b62a
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      fs: cleanup files_lock locking · ee2ffa0d
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      fs: cleanup files_lock locking

Lock tty_files with a new spinlock, tty_files_lock; provide helpers to
manipulate the per-sb files list; unexport the files_lock spinlock.

Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      ee2ffa0d
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      fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash · b04f784e
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash

Optimize lookup for create operations, where no dentry should often be
common-case. In cases where it is not, such as unlink, the added overhead
is much smaller than the removed.

Also, move comments about __d_lookup racyness to the __d_lookup call site.
d_lookup is intuitive; __d_lookup is what needs commenting. So in that same
vein, add kerneldoc comments to __d_lookup and clean up some of the comments:

- We are interested in how the RCU lookup works here, particularly with
  renames. Make that explicit, and point to the document where it is explained
  in more detail.
- RCU is pretty standard now, and macros make implementations pretty mindless.
  If we want to know about RCU barrier details, we look in RCU code.
- Delete some boring legacy comments because we don't care much about how the
  code used to work, more about the interesting parts of how it works now. So
  comments about lazy LRU may be interesting, but would better be done in the
  LRU or refcount management code.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      b04f784e
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      fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock · 2a4419b5
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock

struct fs_struct.lock is an rwlock with the read-side used to protect root and
pwd members while taking references to them. Taking a reference to a path
typically requires just 2 atomic ops, so the critical section is very small.
Parallel read-side operations would have cacheline contention on the lock, the
dentry, and the vfsmount cachelines, so the rwlock is unlikely to ever give a
real parallelism increase.

Replace it with a spinlock to avoid one or two atomic operations in typical
path lookup fastpath.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      2a4419b5
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      fs: dentry allocation consolidation · baa03890
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      fs: dentry allocation consolidation

There are 2 duplicate copies of code in dentry allocation in path lookup.
Consolidate them into a single function.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      baa03890
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      fs: fix do_lookup false negative · 2e2e88ea
      由 Nick Piggin 提交于 
      fs: fix do_lookup false negative

In do_lookup, if we initially find no dentry, we take the directory i_mutex and
re-check the lookup. If we find a dentry there, then we revalidate it if
needed. However if that revalidate asks for the dentry to be invalidated, we
return -ENOENT from do_lookup. What should happen instead is an attempt to
allocate and lookup a new dentry.

This is probably not noticed because it is rare. It is only reached if a
concurrent create races in first (in which case, the dentry probably won't be
invalidated anyway), or if the racy __d_lookup has failed due to a
false-negative (which is very rare).

Fix this by removing code and have it use the normal reval path.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      2e2e88ea
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      mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries · 3a48ee8a
      由 Andreas Gruenbacher 提交于 
      Limit the maximum number of mb_cache entries depending on the number of
hash buckets: if the only limit to the number of cache entries is the
available memory the hash chains can grow very long, taking a long time
to search.

At least partially solves https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22771.
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      3a48ee8a
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      hostfs ->follow_link() braino · 3b6036d1
      由 Al Viro 提交于 
      we want the assignment to err done inside the if () to be
visible after it, so (re)declaring err inside if () body
is wrong.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      3b6036d1
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      hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy · 850a496f
      由 Al Viro 提交于 
      ... not harmless in this case - we have a string in the end of buffer
already.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      850a496f
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      remove SWRITE* I/O types · 9cb569d6
      由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于 
      These flags aren't real I/O types, but tell ll_rw_block to always
lock the buffer instead of giving up on a failed trylock.

Instead add a new write_dirty_buffer helper that implements this semantic
and use it from the existing SWRITE* callers.  Note that the ll_rw_block
code had a bug where it didn't promote WRITE_SYNC_PLUG properly, which
this patch fixes.

In the ufs code clean up the helper that used to call ll_rw_block
to mirror sync_dirty_buffer, which is the function it implements for
compound buffers.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      9cb569d6
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      kill BH_Ordered flag · 87e99511
      由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于 
      Instead of abusing a buffer_head flag just add a variant of
sync_dirty_buffer which allows passing the exact type of write
flag required.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      87e99511
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      vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl · dad5eb6d
      由 Jan Kara 提交于 
      generic_acl_set didn't update the ctime of the file when its permission was
changed.

Steps to reproduce:
 # touch aaa
 # stat -c %Z aaa
 1275289822
 # setfacl -m  'u::x,g::x,o::x' aaa
 # stat -c %Z aaa
 1275289822                         <- unchanged

But, according to the spec of the ctime, vfs must update it.

Port of ext3 patch by Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>.

CC: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      dad5eb6d
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      cramfs: only unlock new inodes · b845ff8f
      由 Alexander Shishkin 提交于 
      Commit 77b8a75f introduced a warning at fs/inode.c:692 unlock_new_inode(),
caused by unlock_new_inode() being called on existing inodes as well.

This patch changes setup_inode() to only call unlock_new_inode() for I_NEW
inodes.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      b845ff8f
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      fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call · f4ae2faa
      由 Sergey Senozhatsky 提交于 
      reiserfs_evict_inode calls end_writeback two times hitting
kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:298 becase inode->i_state is I_CLEAR already.
Signed-off-by: NSergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      f4ae2faa
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      Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer · d7627467
      由 David Howells 提交于 
      Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:

arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to.  This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel().  A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().

do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.

Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.

This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d7627467
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      NFS: Fix the selection of security flavours in Kconfig · df486a25
      由 Trond Myklebust 提交于 
      Randy Dunlap reports:

ERROR: "svc_gss_principal" [fs/nfs/nfs.ko] undefined!


because in fs/nfs/Kconfig, NFS_V4 selects RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
and/or in fs/nfsd/Kconfig, NFSD_V4 selects RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5.

RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 does 5 selects, but none of these is enforced/followed
by the fs/nfs[d]/Kconfig configs:

	select SUNRPC_GSS
	select CRYPTO
	select CRYPTO_MD5
	select CRYPTO_DES
	select CRYPTO_CBC
Reported-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      df486a25
  5. 16 8月, 2010 3 次提交
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      nilfs2: fix false warning saying one of two super blocks is broken · ea1a16f7
      由 Ryusuke Konishi 提交于 
      After applying commit b2ac86e1, the following message got appeared
after unclean shutdown:

> NILFS warning: broken superblock. using spare superblock.

This turns out to be a false message due to the change which updates
two super blocks alternately.  The secondary super block now can be
selected if it's newer than the primary one.

This kills the false warning by suppressing it if another super block
is not actually broken.
Signed-off-by: NRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      ea1a16f7
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      nilfs2: fix list corruption after ifile creation failure · af4e3631
      由 Ryusuke Konishi 提交于 
      If nilfs_attach_checkpoint() gets a memory allocation failure during
creation of ifile, it will return without removing nilfs_sb_info
struct from ns_supers list.  When a concurrently mounted snapshot is
unmounted or another new snapshot is mounted after that, this causes
kernel oops as below:

> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> IP: [<f83662ff>] nilfs_find_sbinfo+0x74/0xa4 [nilfs2]
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
<snip>
> Call Trace:
>  [<f835dc29>] ? nilfs_get_sb+0x165/0x532 [nilfs2]
>  [<c1173c87>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x16d/0x187
>  [<c109a7f8>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0x7e/0x10a
>  [<c1070790>] ? kstrdup+0x2c/0x40
>  [<c1089041>] ? vfs_kern_mount+0x96/0x14e
>  [<c108913d>] ? do_kern_mount+0x32/0xbd
>  [<c109b331>] ? do_mount+0x642/0x6a1
>  [<c101a415>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x2d1
>  [<c1099c00>] ? copy_mount_options+0x80/0xe2
>  [<c10705d8>] ? strndup_user+0x48/0x67
>  [<c109b3f1>] ? sys_mount+0x61/0x90
>  [<c10027cc>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22

This fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: NRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Tested-by: NRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
      af4e3631
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      mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard page · d7824370
      由 Linus Torvalds 提交于 
      This commit makes the stack guard page somewhat less visible to user
space. It does this by:

 - not showing the guard page in /proc/<pid>/maps

   It looks like lvm-tools will actually read /proc/self/maps to figure
   out where all its mappings are, and effectively do a specialized
   "mlockall()" in user space.  By not showing the guard page as part of
   the mapping (by just adding PAGE_SIZE to the start for grows-up
   pages), lvm-tools ends up not being aware of it.

 - by also teaching the _real_ mlock() functionality not to try to lock
   the guard page.

   That would just expand the mapping down to create a new guard page,
   so there really is no point in trying to lock it in place.

It would perhaps be nice to show the guard page specially in
/proc/<pid>/maps (or at least mark grow-down segments some way), but
let's not open ourselves up to more breakage by user space from programs
that depends on the exact deails of the 'maps' file.

Special thanks to Henrique de Moraes Holschuh for diving into lvm-tools
source code to see what was going on with the whole new warning.

Reported-and-tested-by: François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be
Reported-by: NHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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