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* Fix config issues: frame size and headerschrisrd2018-02-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. With various (debug and/or tracing?) kernel options enabled it's possible for 'struct inode' and 'struct super_block' to exceed the default frame size, leaving errors like this in config.log: build/conftest.c:116:1: error: the frame size of 1048 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=] Fix this by removing the frame size warning for config checks 2. Without the correct headers included, it's possible for declarations to be missed, leaving errors like this in the config.log: build/conftest.c:131:14: error: ‘struct nameidata’ declared inside parameter list [-Werror] Fix this by adding appropriate headers. Note: Both these issues can result in silent config failures because the compile failure is taken to mean "this option is not supported by this kernel" rather than "there's something wrong with the config test". This can lead to something merely annoying (compile failures) to something potentially serious (miscompiled or misused kernel primitives or functions). E.g. the fixes included here resulted in these additional defines in zfs_config.h with linux v4.14.19: Also, drive-by whitespace fixes in config/* files which don't mention "GNU" (those ones look to be imported from elsewhere so leave them alone). Reviewed by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <[email protected]> Closes #7169
* Linux 4.2 compat: follow_link() / put_link()Brian Behlendorf2015-07-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As of Linux 4.2 the kernel has completely retired the nameidata structure. One of the few remaining consumers of this interface were the follow_link() and put_link() callbacks. This patch adds the required checks to configure to detect the interface change and updates the functions accordingly. Migrating to the simple_follow_link() interface was considered but was decided against ironically due to the increased complexity. It also should be noted that the kernel follow_link() and put_link() interfaces changes several times after 4.1 and but before 4.2. This means there is a narrow range of kernel commits which never appear in an official tag of the Linux kernel which ZoL will not build. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <[email protected]> Issue #3596
* Eliminate runtime function pointer mods in autotools checksRichard Yao2013-03-041-6/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PaX/GrSecurity patched kernels implement a dialect of C that relies on a GCC plugin for enforcement. A basic idea in this dialect is that function pointers in structures should not change during runtime. This causes code that modifies function pointers at runtime to fail to compile in many instances. The autotools checks rely on whether or not small test cases compile against a given kernel. Some autotools checks assume some default case if other cases fail. When one of these autotools checks tests a PaX/GrSecurity patched kernel by modifying a function pointer at runtime, the default case will be used. Early detection of such situations is possible by relying on compiler warnings, which are compiler errors when --enable-debug is used. Unfortunately, very few people build ZFS with --enable-debug. The more common situation is that these issues manifest themselves as runtime failures in the form of NULL pointer exceptions. Previous patches that addressed such issues with PaX/GrSecurity compatibility largely relied on rewriting autotools checks to avoid runtime function pointer modification or the addition of PaX/GrSecurity specific checks. This patch takes the previous work to its logical conclusion by eliminating the use of runtime function pointer modification. This permits the removal of PaX-specific autotools checks in favor of ones that work across all supported kernels. This should resolve issues that were reported to occur with PaX/GrSecurity-patched Linux 3.7.5 kernels on Gentoo Linux. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457176 We should be able to prevent future regressions in PaX/GrSecurity compatibility by ensuring that all changes to ZFSOnLinux avoid runtime function pointer modification. At the same time, this does not solve the issue of silent failures triggering default cases in the autotools check, which is what permitted these regressions to become runtime failures in the first place. This will need to be addressed in a future patch. Reported-by: Marcin Mirosław <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #1300
* Linux 3.6 compat, iops->create()Yuxuan Shui2012-10-141-0/+26
As of Linux commit ebfc3b49a7ac25920cb5be5445f602e51d2ea559 the struct nameidata is no longer passed to iops->create. Instead only the result of (inamedata->flags & LOOKUP_EXCL) is passed. ZFS like almost all Linux fileystems never made use of this so only the prototype needs to be wrapped for compatibility. Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Issue #873