1. 09 Oct, 2008 1 commit
    • Eric Sandeen's avatar
      ext4: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption · 9d9f1775
      Eric Sandeen authored
      Note: some people thinks this represents a security bug, since it
      might make the system go away while it is printing a large number of
      console messages, especially if a serial console is involved.  Hence,
      it has been assigned CVE-2008-3528, but it requires that the attacker
      either has physical access to your machine to insert a USB disk with a
      corrupted filesystem image (at which point why not just hit the power
      button), or is otherwise able to convince the system administrator to
      mount an arbitrary filesystem image (at which point why not just
      include a setuid shell or world-writable hard disk device file or some
      such).  Me, I think they're just being silly. --tytso
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
      9d9f1775
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    • Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar
      ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks · a30d542a
      Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
      With delayed allocation we need to make sure block are reserved before
      we attempt to allocate them. Otherwise we get block allocation failure
      (ENOSPC) during writepages which cannot be handled. This would mean
      silent data loss (We do a printk stating data will be lost). This patch
      updates the DIO and fallocate code path to do block reservation before
      block allocation. This is needed to make sure parallel DIO and fallocate
      request doesn't take block out of delayed reserve space.
      
      When free blocks count go below a threshold we switch to a slow patch
      which looks at other CPU's accumulated percpu counter values.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      a30d542a
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 2.6.27-rc9 · 4330ed8e
      Linus Torvalds authored
      4330ed8e
    • Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar
      Marker depmod fix core kernel list · 87f3b6b6
      Mathieu Desnoyers authored
      * Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:
      >
      > I've been playing with adding some markers into ext4 to see if they
      > could be useful in solving some problems along with Systemtap.  It
      > appears, though, that as of 2.6.27-rc8, markers defined in code which is
      > compiled directly into the kernel (i.e., not as modules) don't show up
      > in Module.markers:
      >
      > kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel  %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
      > kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel  %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
      > kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd  %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
      > kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd  %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u
      >
      > (Note the lack of any of the kernel_sched_* markers, and the markers I
      > added for ext4_* and jbd2_* are missing as wel.)
      >
      > Systemtap apparently depends on in-kernel trace_mark being recorded in
      > Module.markers, and apparently it's been claimed that it used to be
      > there.  Is this a bug in systemtap, or in how Module.markers is getting
      > built?   And is there a file that contains the equivalent information
      > for markers located in non-modules code?
      
      I think the problem comes from "markers: fix duplicate modpost entry"
      (commit d35cb360)
      
      Especially :
      
        -   add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
        +   if (!mod->skip)
        +     add_marker(mod, marker, fmt);
          }
          return;
         fail:
      
      Here is a fix that should take care if this problem.
      
      Thanks for the bug report!
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Tested-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      CC: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
      CC: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
      CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      CC: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
      CC: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      87f3b6b6