coda: remove CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcalls

This is an variation on the patch sent by Christoph Hellwig which kills
file_count abuse by the Coda kernel module by moving the coda_flush
functionality into coda_release.  However part of reason we were using the
coda_flush callback was to allow Coda to pass errors that occur during
writeback from the userspace cache manager back to close().

As Al Viro explained on linux-fsdevel, it is impossible to guarantee that
such errors can in fact be returned back to the caller.  There are many
cases where the last reference to a file is not released by the close
system call and it is also impossible to pick some close as a 'last-close'
and delay it until all other references have been destroyed.

The CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcall combination is clearly a broken design,
and it is better to remove it completely.

Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/coda/dir.c b/fs/coda/dir.c
index 8e61236..f89ff08 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/coda/dir.c
+++ b/fs/coda/dir.c
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ const struct file_operations coda_dir_operations = {
        .read           = generic_read_dir,
        .readdir        = coda_readdir,
        .open           = coda_open,
-       .flush          = coda_flush,
        .release        = coda_release,
        .fsync          = coda_fsync,
 };

diff --git a/fs/coda/file.c b/fs/coda/file.c
index 7594962..29137ff 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/coda/file.c
+++ b/fs/coda/file.c
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@
 
 #include "coda_int.h"
 
-/* if CODA_STORE fails with EOPNOTSUPP, venus clearly doesn't support
- * CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE and we fall back on using the CODA_CLOSE upcall */
-static int use_coda_close;
-
 static ssize_t
 coda_file_read(struct file *coda_file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
@@ -163,47 +159,6 @@ int coda_open(struct inode *coda_inode, struct file *coda_file)
        return 0;
 }
 
-int coda_flush(struct file *coda_file, fl_owner_t id)
-{
-       unsigned short flags = coda_file->f_flags & ~O_EXCL;
-       unsigned short coda_flags = coda_flags_to_cflags(flags);
-       struct coda_file_info *cfi;
-       struct inode *coda_inode;
-       int err = 0, fcnt;
-
-       lock_kernel();
-
-       /* last close semantics */
-       fcnt = file_count(coda_file);
-       if (fcnt > 1)
-               goto out;
-
-       /* No need to make an upcall when we have not made any modifications
-        * to the file */
-       if ((coda_file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY)
-               goto out;
-
-       if (use_coda_close)
-               goto out;
-
-       cfi = CODA_FTOC(coda_file);
-       BUG_ON(!cfi || cfi->cfi_magic != CODA_MAGIC);
-
-       coda_inode = coda_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-
-       err = venus_store(coda_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(coda_inode), coda_flags,
-                         coda_file->f_uid);
-
-       if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
-               use_coda_close = 1;
-               err = 0;
-       }
-
-out:
-       unlock_kernel();
-       return err;
-}
-
 int coda_release(struct inode *coda_inode, struct file *coda_file)
 {
        unsigned short flags = (coda_file->f_flags) & (~O_EXCL);
@@ -215,21 +170,11 @@ int coda_release(struct inode *coda_inode, struct file *coda_file)
 
        lock_kernel();
 
-       if (!use_coda_close) {
-               err = venus_release(coda_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(coda_inode),
-                                   coda_flags);
-               if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
-                       use_coda_close = 1;
-                       err = 0;
-               }
-       }
-
        cfi = CODA_FTOC(coda_file);
        BUG_ON(!cfi || cfi->cfi_magic != CODA_MAGIC);
 
-       if (use_coda_close)
-               err = venus_close(coda_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(coda_inode),
-                                 coda_flags, coda_file->f_uid);
+       err = venus_close(coda_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(coda_inode),
+                         coda_flags, coda_file->f_uid);
 
        host_inode = cfi->cfi_container->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
        cii = ITOC(coda_inode);
@@ -246,7 +191,10 @@ int coda_release(struct inode *coda_inode, struct file *coda_file)
        coda_file->private_data = NULL;
 
        unlock_kernel();
-       return err;
+
+       /* VFS fput ignores the return value from file_operations->release, so
+        * there is no use returning an error here */
+       return 0;
 }
 
 int coda_fsync(struct file *coda_file, struct dentry *coda_dentry, int datasync)
@@ -288,7 +236,6 @@ const struct file_operations coda_file_operations = {
        .write          = coda_file_write,
        .mmap           = coda_file_mmap,
        .open           = coda_open,
-       .flush          = coda_flush,
        .release        = coda_release,
        .fsync          = coda_fsync,
        .splice_read    = coda_file_splice_read,

diff --git a/fs/coda/upcall.c b/fs/coda/upcall.c
index cd561d2..cdb4c07 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/coda/upcall.c
+++ b/fs/coda/upcall.c
@@ -160,55 +160,8 @@ int venus_lookup(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid,
        return error;
 }
 
-int venus_store(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags,
-                vuid_t uid)
-{
-        union inputArgs *inp;
-        union outputArgs *outp;
-        int insize, outsize, error;
-#ifdef CONFIG_CODA_FS_OLD_API
-       struct coda_cred cred = { 0, };
-       cred.cr_fsuid = uid;
-#endif
-       
-       insize = SIZE(store);
-       UPARG(CODA_STORE);
-       
-#ifdef CONFIG_CODA_FS_OLD_API
-       memcpy(&(inp->ih.cred), &cred, sizeof(cred));
-#else
-       inp->ih.uid = uid;
-#endif
-       
-        inp->coda_store.VFid = *fid;
-        inp->coda_store.flags = flags;
-
-       error = coda_upcall(coda_vcp(sb), insize, &outsize, inp);
-
-       CODA_FREE(inp, insize);
-        return error;
-}
-
-int venus_release(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags)
-{
-        union inputArgs *inp;
-        union outputArgs *outp;
-        int insize, outsize, error;
-       
-       insize = SIZE(release);
-       UPARG(CODA_RELEASE);
-       
-       inp->coda_release.VFid = *fid;
-       inp->coda_release.flags = flags;
-
-       error = coda_upcall(coda_vcp(sb), insize, &outsize, inp);
-
-       CODA_FREE(inp, insize);
-       return error;
-}
-
 int venus_close(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags,
-                vuid_t uid)
+               vuid_t uid)
 {
        union inputArgs *inp;
        union outputArgs *outp;

diff --git a/include/linux/coda_linux.h b/include/linux/coda_linux.h
index c4079b4..1c47a34 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/coda_linux.h
+++ b/include/linux/coda_linux.h
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ extern const struct file_operations coda_ioctl_operations;
 
 /* operations shared over more than one file */
 int coda_open(struct inode *i, struct file *f);
-int coda_flush(struct file *f, fl_owner_t id);
 int coda_release(struct inode *i, struct file *f);
 int coda_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, struct nameidata *nd);
 int coda_revalidate_inode(struct dentry *);

diff --git a/include/linux/coda_psdev.h b/include/linux/coda_psdev.h
index aa8f454..07ae8f8 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/coda_psdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/coda_psdev.h
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ int venus_setattr(struct super_block *, struct CodaFid *, struct coda_vattr *);
 int venus_lookup(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, 
                 const char *name, int length, int *type, 
                 struct CodaFid *resfid);
-int venus_store(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags,
-               vuid_t uid);
-int venus_release(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags);
 int venus_close(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags,
                vuid_t uid);
 int venus_open(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags,