linux/fs/read_write.c, branch v3.1

fs: add missing unlock in default_llseek()

2011-07-26T16:57:09Z

A recent change in linux-next, 982d816581 "fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags" added some direct returns on error, but it should have been a goto out. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags

2011-07-21T00:47:56Z

This just gets us ready to support the SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags. Turns out using fiemap in things like cp cause more problems than it solves, so lets try and give userspace an interface that doesn't suck. We need to match solaris here, and the definitions are *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_HOLE, the offset of the start of the next hole greater than or equal to the supplied offset is returned. The definition of a hole is provided near the end of the DESCRIPTION. *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_DATA, the file pointer is set to the start of the next non-hole file region greater than or equal to the supplied offset. So in the generic case the entire file is data and there is a virtual hole at the end. That means we will just return i_size for SEEK_HOLE and will return the same offset for SEEK_DATA. This is how Solaris does it so we have to do it the same way. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures

2011-01-13T01:06:58Z

... and clean the unsigned-f_pos code, while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

BKL: remove extraneous #include

2010-11-17T16:59:32Z

The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point, leaving only the #include. Remove this too as a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

readv/writev: do the same MAX_RW_COUNT truncation that read/write does

2010-10-29T17:36:49Z

We used to protect against overflow, but rather than return an error, do what read/write does, namely to limit the total size to MAX_RW_COUNT. This is not only more consistent, but it also means that any broken low-level read/write routine that still keeps counts in 'int' can't break. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vfs: introduce FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET for allowing negative f_pos

2010-10-26T01:18:21Z

Now, rw_verify_area() checsk f_pos is negative or not. And if negative, returns -EINVAL. But, some special files as /dev/(k)mem and /proc//mem etc.. has negative offsets. And we can't do any access via read/write to the file(device). So introduce FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET to allow negative file offsets. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Al Viro Cc: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: make no_llseek the default

2010-10-15T13:53:46Z

All file operations now have an explicit .llseek operation pointer, so we can change the default action for future code. This makes changes the default from default_llseek to no_llseek, which always returns -ESPIPE if a user tries to seek on a file without a .llseek operation. The name of the default_llseek function remains unchanged, if anyone thinks we should change it, please speak up. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org

vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek

2010-10-15T13:53:34Z

There are currently 191 users of default_llseek. Nine of these are in device drivers that use the big kernel lock. None of these ever touch file->f_pos outside of llseek or file_pos_write. Consequently, we never rely on the BKL in the default_llseek function and can replace that with i_mutex, which is also used in generic_file_llseek. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

fsnotify: pass a file instead of an inode to open, read, and write

2010-07-28T13:58:32Z

fanotify, the upcoming notification system actually needs a struct path so it can do opens in the context of listeners, and it needs a file so it can get f_flags from the original process. Close was the only operation that already was passing a struct file to the notification hook. This patch passes a file for access, modify, and open as well as they are easily available to these hooks. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

vfs: introduce noop_llseek()

2010-05-27T16:12:56Z

This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case when userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is actually not able to perform the seek. In this case you use noop_llseek() instead of falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds