linux/fs
Miklos Szeredi 0a7c3937a1 vfs: add RENAME_NOREPLACE flag
If this flag is specified and the target of the rename exists then the
rename syscall fails with EEXIST.

The VFS does the existence checking, so it is trivial to enable for most
local filesystems.  This patch only enables it in ext4.

For network filesystems the VFS check is not enough as there may be a race
between a remote create and the rename, so these filesystems need to handle
this flag in their ->rename() implementations to ensure atomicity.

Andy writes about why this is useful:

"The trivial answer: to eliminate the race condition from 'mv -i'.

Another answer: there's a common pattern to atomically create a file
with contents: open a temporary file, write to it, optionally fsync
it, close it, then link(2) it to the final name, then unlink the
temporary file.

The reason to use link(2) is because it won't silently clobber the destination.

This is annoying:
 - It requires an extra system call that shouldn't be necessary.
 - It doesn't work on (IMO sensible) filesystems that don't support
hard links (e.g. vfat).
 - It's not atomic -- there's an intermediate state where both files exist.
 - It's ugly.

The new rename flag will make this totally sensible.

To be fair, on new enough kernels, you can also use O_TMPFILE and
linkat to achieve the same thing even more cleanly."

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2014-04-01 17:08:43 +02:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
adfs
affs affs: use ->kill_sb() to simplify ->put_super() and failure exits of ->mount() 2014-01-25 03:13:01 -05:00
afs afs: proc cells and rootcell are writeable 2014-02-01 10:59:39 -08:00
autofs4 autofs: fix symlinks aren't checked for expiry 2014-01-23 16:36:59 -08:00
befs befs: iget_locked() doesn't return an ERR_PTR 2014-01-25 03:14:38 -05:00
bfs
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2014-02-16 11:05:27 -08:00
cachefiles vfs: add renameat2 syscall 2014-04-01 17:08:42 +02:00
ceph ceph: fix __dcache_readdir() 2014-02-17 12:37:13 -08:00
cifs cifs: mask off top byte in get_rfc1002_length() 2014-02-28 14:01:14 -06:00
coda
configfs
cramfs cramfs: take headers to fs/cramfs 2014-01-25 03:13:02 -05:00
debugfs
devpts
dlm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
ecryptfs vfs: add renameat2 syscall 2014-04-01 17:08:42 +02:00
efivarfs
efs efs: get rid of ->put_super() 2014-01-25 03:13:02 -05:00
exofs exofs: Print less in r4w 2014-01-23 18:54:14 +02:00
exportfs
ext2 ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure 2014-01-25 23:58:19 -05:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
ext4 vfs: add RENAME_NOREPLACE flag 2014-04-01 17:08:43 +02:00
f2fs Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
fat
freevxfs
fscache FS-Cache: Handle removal of unadded object to the fscache_object_list rb tree 2014-02-17 13:47:35 -08:00
fuse Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
gfs2 Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
hfs
hfsplus hfsplus: add HFSX subfolder count support 2014-03-10 17:26:21 -07:00
hostfs um: hostfs: make functions static 2014-01-26 11:51:09 +01:00
hpfs hpfs: optimize quad buffer loading 2014-02-02 16:24:07 -08:00
hppfs
hugetlbfs
isofs
jbd
jbd2 jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_journal_start_reserved() 2014-02-17 20:33:01 -05:00
jffs2 MTD updates for 3.14: 2014-01-28 18:56:37 -08:00
jfs jfs: set i_ctime when setting ACL 2014-02-13 15:56:05 -06:00
kernfs sysfs: fix namespace refcnt leak 2014-02-25 07:37:52 -08:00
lockd lockd: send correct lock when granting a delayed lock. 2014-02-13 14:55:02 -05:00
logfs Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
minix
ncpfs
nfs NFS client bugfixes for Linux 3.14 2014-03-09 19:17:39 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd vfs: add renameat2 syscall 2014-04-01 17:08:42 +02:00
nilfs2 Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
nls nls: have register_nls() set ->owner 2014-01-25 03:14:05 -05:00
notify fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type 2014-02-25 11:18:06 +01:00
ntfs fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write() 2014-02-09 15:18:09 -05:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: check if cluster name exists before deref 2014-03-28 13:56:58 -07:00
omfs
openpromfs
proc fs/proc/base.c: fix GPF in /proc/$PID/map_files 2014-03-10 17:26:20 -07:00
pstore pstore: Don't allow high traffic options on fragile devices 2013-12-20 13:12:01 -08:00
qnx4 qnx4: clean qnx4_fill_super() up 2014-01-25 03:13:03 -05:00
qnx6
quota quota: Fix race between dqput() and dquot_scan_active() 2014-02-20 21:57:04 +01:00
ramfs fs/ramfs: move ramfs_aops to inode.c 2014-01-23 16:36:58 -08:00
reiserfs reiserfs: fix utterly brain-damaged indentation. 2014-02-17 13:46:33 -08:00
romfs romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super 2014-01-23 16:37:04 -08:00
squashfs
sysfs sysfs: fix namespace refcnt leak 2014-02-25 07:37:52 -08:00
sysv
ubifs fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding 2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
udf udf: Fix data corruption on file type conversion 2014-02-20 21:56:00 +01:00
ufs
xfs Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2014-02-27 10:37:22 -08:00
aio.c Merge git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next 2013-12-22 11:03:49 -08:00
anon_inodes.c vfs: Allocate anon_inode_inode in anon_inode_init() 2014-03-27 09:52:54 -07:00
attr.c
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf.c fs: binfmt_elf: remove unused defines INTERPRETER_NONE and INTERPRETER_ELF 2014-01-23 16:36:58 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c bio-integrity: Drop bio_integrity_verify BUG_ON in post bip->bip_iter world 2014-02-21 15:56:36 -08:00
bio.c block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios 2014-02-11 08:40:45 -07:00
block_dev.c
buffer.c mm: __set_page_dirty uses spin_lock_irqsave instead of spin_lock_irq 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
char_dev.c
compat.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c fs/compat_ioctl.c: fix an underflow issue (harmless) 2014-01-21 16:19:42 -08:00
coredump.c coredump: make __get_dumpable/get_dumpable inline, kill fs/coredump.h 2014-01-23 16:37:01 -08:00
dcache.c make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen 2014-03-23 00:28:40 -04:00
dcookies.c fs/compat: fix lookup_dcookie() parameter handling 2014-01-29 16:22:40 -08:00
direct-io.c
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c eventfd_ctx_fdget(): use fdget() instead of fget() 2014-01-25 03:13:04 -05:00
eventpoll.c epoll: do not take the nested ep->mtx on EPOLL_CTL_DEL 2014-01-02 14:40:30 -08:00
exec.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
fcntl.c
fhandle.c
file.c vfs: Don't let __fdget_pos() get FMODE_PATH files 2014-03-23 00:03:12 -04:00
file_table.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
filesystems.c
fs-writeback.c Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" 2014-02-22 02:02:28 +01:00
fs_struct.c
inode.c
internal.h
ioctl.c
ioprio.c
Kconfig fs: remove generic_acl 2014-01-26 08:26:40 -05:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c
locks.c
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
mbcache.c
mount.h switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
mpage.c
namei.c vfs: add RENAME_NOREPLACE flag 2014-04-01 17:08:43 +02:00
namespace.c switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
no-block.c
open.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
pipe.c fs/pipe.c: skip file_update_time on frozen fs 2014-01-23 16:37:00 -08:00
pnode.c switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
pnode.h switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
posix_acl.c fs: get_acl() must be allowed to return EOPNOTSUPP 2014-02-03 17:12:37 -05:00
proc_namespace.c fs/proc_namespace.c: simplify testing nsp and nsp->mnt_ns 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
read_write.c vfs: atomic f_pos access in llseek() 2014-03-23 00:03:12 -04:00
readdir.c
select.c
seq_file.c
signalfd.c
splice.c fuse: fix pipe_buf_operations 2014-01-22 19:36:57 +01:00
stack.c
stat.c
statfs.c
super.c fs/super.c: sync ro remount after blocking writers 2014-01-31 14:29:36 -05:00
sync.c Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" 2014-02-22 02:02:28 +01:00
timerfd.c
utimes.c
xattr.c