pid namespaces: round up the API

The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and
task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking
at the code for

pid namespaces: round up the API

The set of functions process_session, task_session, process_group and
task_pgrp is confusing, as the names can be mixed with each other when looking
at the code for a long time.

The proposals are to
* equip the functions that return the integer with _nr suffix to
represent that fact,
* and to make all functions work with task (not process) by making
the common prefix of the same name.

For monotony the routines signal_session() and set_signal_session() are
replaced with task_session_nr() and set_task_session(), especially since they
are only used with the explicit task->signal dereference.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Replace pid_t in autofs with struct pid reference

Make autofs container-friendly by caching struct pid reference rather than
pid_t and using pid_nr() to retreive a task's pid_t.

ChangeLog:
- Fix E

Replace pid_t in autofs with struct pid reference

Make autofs container-friendly by caching struct pid reference rather than
pid_t and using pid_nr() to retreive a task's pid_t.

ChangeLog:
- Fix Eric Biederman's comments - Use find_get_pid() to hold a
reference to oz_pgrp and release while unmounting; separate out
changes to autofs and autofs4.
- Fix Cedric's comments: retain old prototype of parse_options()
and move necessary change to its caller.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: containers@lists.osdl.org
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Fix some coding-style errors in autofs

Fix coding style errors (extra spaces, long lines) in autofs and autofs4 files
being modified for container/pidspace issues.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprol

Fix some coding-style errors in autofs

Fix coding style errors (extra spaces, long lines) in autofs and autofs4 files
being modified for container/pidspace issues.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <containers@lists.osdl.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge ARM fixes

Merge branch 'gfar' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into upstream

Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/

Conflicts:

net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_spkm3_token.c
net/sunrpc/clnt.c

Merge with mainline and fix con

Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/

Conflicts:

net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_spkm3_token.c
net/sunrpc/clnt.c

Merge with mainline and fix conflicts.

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Merge branch 'master' into 85xx

Merge branch 'master' into 83xx

Merge branch 'master' into for_paulus

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Sign

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge ../linus

Merge ../linus

Conflicts:

drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c

Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

drivers/usb/input/hid.h

Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/ into merge_linus

[PATCH] autofs: fix error code path in autofs_fill_sb()

When kernel is compiled with old version of autofs (CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS), and
new (observed at least with 5.x.x) automount deamon is started, ker

[PATCH] autofs: fix error code path in autofs_fill_sb()

When kernel is compiled with old version of autofs (CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS), and
new (observed at least with 5.x.x) automount deamon is started, kernel
correctly reports incompatible version of kernel and userland daemon, but
then screws things up instead of correct handling of the error:

autofs: kernel does not match daemon version
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
-------------------------------------
automount/4199 is trying to release lock (&type->s_umount_key) at:
[<c0163b9e>] get_sb_nodev+0x76/0xa4
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by automount/4199.

stack backtrace:
[<c0103b15>] dump_trace+0x68/0x1b2
[<c0103c77>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c
[<c01041db>] show_trace+0xf/0x11
[<c010424d>] dump_stack+0x12/0x14
[<c012e02c>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xe7/0xf3
[<c012fd4f>] lock_release+0x8d/0x164
[<c012b452>] up_write+0x14/0x27
[<c0163b9e>] get_sb_nodev+0x76/0xa4
[<c0163689>] vfs_kern_mount+0x83/0xf6
[<c016373e>] do_kern_mount+0x2d/0x3e
[<c017513f>] do_mount+0x607/0x67a
[<c0175224>] sys_mount+0x72/0xa4
[<c0102b96>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
Leftover inexact backtrace:
=======================

and then deadlock comes.

The problem: autofs_fill_super() returns EINVAL to get_sb_nodev(), but
before that, it calls kill_anon_super() to destroy the superblock which
won't be needed. This is however way too soon to call kill_anon_super(),
because get_sb_nodev() has to perform its own cleanup of the superblock
first (deactivate_super(), etc.). The correct time to call
kill_anon_super() is in the autofs_kill_sb() callback, which is called by
deactivate_super() at proper time, when the superblock is ready to be
killed.

I can see the same faulty codepath also in autofs4. This patch solves
issues in both filesystems in a same way - it postpones the
kill_anon_super() until the proper time is signalized by deactivate_super()
calling the kill_sb() callback.

[raven@themaw.net: update comment]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-linus

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge ../scsi-rc-fixes-2.6

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

[PATCH] autofs4: panic after mount fail

Resolve the panic on failed mount of an autofs filesystem originally
reported by Mao Bibo.

It addresses two issues that happen after the mount fail. The fir

[PATCH] autofs4: panic after mount fail

Resolve the panic on failed mount of an autofs filesystem originally
reported by Mao Bibo.

It addresses two issues that happen after the mount fail. The first a NULL
pointer reference to a field (pipe) in the autofs superblock info structure
and second the lack of super block cleanup by the autofs and autofs4
modules.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

[PATCH] autofs3: Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super()

Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super()
so that the assumption that gener

[PATCH] autofs3: Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super()

Make sure all dentries refs are released before calling kill_anon_super()
so that the assumption that generic_shutdown_super() can completely destroy
the dentry tree for there will be no external references holds true.

What was being done in the put_super() superblock op, is now done in the
kill_sb() filesystem op instead, prior to calling kill_anon_super().

The call to shrink_dcache_sb() is removed as it is redundant since
shrink_dcache_for_umount() will now be called after the cleanup routine.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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