linux/fs/stat.c, branch v4.8

fs/stat.c: drop the last new_valid_dev check

2016-01-16T19:17:23Z

New_valid_dev() always returns true, so that's unnecessary to perform new_valid_dev() checks in some filesystems. Most checks of new_valid_dev() have been removed so let's drop this last one and then we can remove new_valid_dev() from the source code. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/stat.c: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev() check

2015-11-09T23:11:24Z

new_valid_dev() always returns 1, so the !new_valid_dev() check is not needed. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Cc: Alexander Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations

2015-04-15T19:06:59Z

Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch security_inode_getattr() to struct path *

2015-04-12T02:24:32Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: split out vfs_getattr_nosec

2013-11-09T05:16:31Z

The filehandle lookup code wants this version of getattr. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields Signed-off-by: Al Viro

quota: provide interface for readding allocated space into reserved space

2013-08-17T13:32:32Z

ext4 needs to convert allocated (metadata) blocks back into blocks reserved for delayed allocation. Add functions into quota code for supporting such operation. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

switch vfs_getattr() to struct path

2013-02-26T07:46:08Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: fix readlinkat to retry on ESTALE

2012-12-20T23:50:01Z

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call

2012-12-20T23:50:01Z

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-10-03T03:25:04Z

Pull vfs update from Al Viro: - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of that is moved to fs/file.c (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c. As it is, we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of struct file we used to have way back). A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives, disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore. A bunch of relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file leak. - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have). - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and switch of fdinfo to seq_file. - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate pile, this was just a mechanical code movement. - a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle, there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)." Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file() interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers" vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of /proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket) * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits) MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper usb/gadget: fix misannotations fcntl: fix misannotations ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget new helpers: fdget()/fdput() switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light() proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files make get_file() return its argument vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light() switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light() switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light() ...