If this mount option is set, when an application does an
fsync call then the cifs client does not send an SMB Flush
to the server (to force the server to write all dirty data
for this file immediately to disk), although cifs still sends
all dirty (cached) file data to the server and waits for the
server to respond to the write write. Since SMB Flush can be
very slow, and some servers may be reliable enough (to risk
delaying slightly flushing the data to disk on the server),
turning on this option may be useful to improve performance for
applications that fsync too much, at a small risk of server
crash. If this mount option is not set, by default cifs will
send an SMB flush request (and wait for a response) on every
fsync call.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (31 commits)
[CIFS] Remove redundant test
[CIFS] make sure that DFS pathnames are properly formed
Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
[CIFS] Streamline SendReceive[2] by using "goto out:" in an error condition
Slightly streamline SendReceive[2]
Check the return value of cifs_sign_smb[2]
[CIFS] Cleanup: Move the check for too large R/W requests
[CIFS] Slightly simplify wait_for_free_request(), remove an unnecessary "else" branch
Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches
[CIFS] In SendReceive, move consistency check out of the mutexed region
cifs: store password in tcon
cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args
cifs: zero out session password before freeing it
cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly
[CIFS] Can not mount with prefixpath if root directory of share is inaccessible
[CIFS] various minor cleanups pointed out by checkpatch script
[CIFS] fix typo
[CIFS] remove sparse warning
...
Fix trivial conflict in fs/cifs/cifs_fs_sb.h due to comment changes for
the CIFS_MOUNT_xyz bit definitions between cifs updates and security
updates.
Some applications/subsystems require mandatory byte range locks
(as is used for Windows/DOS/OS2 etc). Sending advisory (posix style)
byte range lock requests (instead of mandatory byte range locks) can
lead to problems for these applications (which expect that other
clients be prevented from writing to portions of the file which
they have locked and are updating). This mount option allows
mounting cifs with the new mount option "forcemand" (or
"forcemandatorylock") in order to have the cifs client use mandatory
byte range locks (ie SMB/CIFS/Windows/NTFS style locks) rather than
posix byte range lock requests, even if the server would support
posix byte range lock requests. This has no effect if the server
does not support the CIFS Unix Extensions (since posix style locks
require support for the CIFS Unix Extensions), but for mounts
to Samba servers this can be helpful for Wine and applications
that require mandatory byte range locks.
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
CC: Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.
Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().
Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
when unix extensions and cifsacl support are disabled. These
permissions changes are "ephemeral" however. They are lost whenever
a share is mounted and unmounted, or when memory pressure forces
the inode out of the cache.
Because of this, we'd like to introduce a behavior change to make
CIFS behave more like local DOS/Windows filesystems. When unix
extensions and cifsacl support aren't enabled, then don't silently
ignore changes to permission bits that can't be reflected on the
server.
Still, there may be people relying on the current behavior for
certain applications. This patch adds a new "dynperm" (and a
corresponding "nodynperm") mount option that will be intended
to make the client fall back to legacy behavior when setting
these modes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Also cifs_fs_type was made not static for ussage in dfs code.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This should be the last big batch of whitespace/formatting fixes.
checkpatch warnings for the cifs directory are down about 90% and
many of the remaining ones are harder to remove or make the code
harder to read.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
When CIFS Unix Extensions are negotiated we get the Unix uid and gid
owners of the file from the server (on the Unix Query Path Info
levels), but if the server's uids don't match the client uid's users
were having to disable the Unix Extensions (which turned off features
they still wanted). The changeset patch allows users to override uid
and/or gid for file/directory owner with a default uid and/or gid
specified at mount (as is often done when mounting from Linux cifs
client to Windows server). This changeset also displays the uid
and gid used by default in /proc/mounts (if applicable).
Also cleans up code by adding some of the missing spaces after
"if" keywords per-kernel style guidelines (as suggested by Randy Dunlap
when he reviewed the patch).
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
over the wire (to help the case when applications break with cifs mandatory
lock behavior. Add part one of mount option for requesting case
insensitive path name matching.
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
This should help the case of creating fifos and other special files to
servers which do not support the Unix extensions.
Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
Thanks to Martin Koeppe for his suggestions and good analysis
For handling seven special characters that shells use for filenames.
This first parts implements conversions from Unicode.
Signed-off-by: Steve French
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Steve French