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DateSun, 12 Jan 2003 11:18:08 +0100
FromAdrian Bunk <>
Subject[patch] remove outdated fs/ChangeLog
Hi Al,

fs/ChangeLog is _very_ outdated. Is the patch below to remove it from 
2.4 and 2.5 OK?

cu
Adrian

--- linux-2.5.56/fs/ChangeLog	2003-01-10 21:11:22.000000000 +0100
+++ /dev/null	2003-01-09 00:39:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,159 +0,0 @@
-Mon Oct 24 23:27:42 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-	* fcntl.c (sys_fcntl): Liberalize security checks which Alan Cox
-		put in.
-
-Thu Oct 20 23:44:22 1994  Theodore Y. Ts'o  (tytso@rt-11)
-
-	* fcntl.c (sys_fcntl): Add more of a security check to the
-		F_SETOWN fcntl().
-
-[Tons of changes missed, indeed. This list is worth restarting since
-at least some fixes WILL break third-party filesystems. Sorry, but
-there was no other way to fix rmdir/rename deadlock, for one.]
-
-Wed Dec  2 (Linus, fill the rest, please)
-
-	* namei.c (do_rmdir) and rmdir method in filesystems:
-		Locking of directory we remove was taken to VFS.
-		See comments in do_rmdir(). Unfixed filesystems
-		will bloody likely deadlock in rmdir().
-
-Thu Dec  3 17:25:31 1998  Al Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
-
-	* namei.c (do_rmdir):
-		Reject non-directories here.
-		Two (probably) obsolete checks moved here too: we fail if
-		the directory we remove is the same as parent (BUG: we
-		serve mountpoints later) or if it lives on a different
-		device.
-	* sysv/namei.c (sysv_rmdir):	See sysv/CHANGES
-
-Fri Dec  4 00:54:12 1998  AV
-
-	* namei.c (check_sticky): New function check_sticky(dir, inode).
-		If dir is sticky check whether we can unlink/rmdir/rename
-		the inode. Returns 1 if we can't. If dir isn't sticky -
-		return 0 (i.e. no objections). Some filesystems require
-		suser() here; some are fine with CAP_FOWNER. The later
-		seems more reasonable.
-	* namei.c (do_rmdir):
-		Moved the check for sticky bit here.
-	* affs/{inode,namei}.c:
-		All AFFS directories have sticky semantics (i.e. non-owner
-		having write permisssions on directory can unlink/rmdir/rename
-		only the files he owns), but AFFS didn't set S_ISVTX on them.
-		Fixed. NB: maybe this behaviour should be controlled by mount
-		option. Obvious values being 'sticky' (current behaviour),
-		'nonsticky' (normal behaviour) and maybe some play on 'D'
-		permissions bit. FIXME.
-	* qnx4/namei.c (qnx4_rmdir):
-		Plugged inode leak.
-	* ufs/namei.c (ufs_rmdir):
-		Changed handling of busy directory to new scheme.
-
-Fri Dec  4 10:30:58 1998  AV
-
-	* namei.c (VFS_rmdir): New function. It gets inode of the parent and
-		dentry of the victim, does all checks and applies fs-specific
-		rmdir() method. It should be called with semaphores down
-		on both the victim and its parent and with bumped d_count on
-		victim (see comments in do_rmdir).
-	* include/linux/fs.h: Added VFS_rmdir
-	* kernel/ksyms.c: Added VFS_rmdir to export list (for NFSD).
-	* nfsd/vfs.c: Fixed rmdir handling.
-
-Tue Dec  8 05:55:08 1998  AV
-	* vfat/namei.c: Fixed the bug in vfat_rename() introduced in the
-		first round of rmdir fixes.
-
-Wed Dec  9 03:06:10 1998  AV
-	* namei.c (do_rename): part of fs-independent checks had been moved
-		here (sticky bit handling, type mismatches). Cases of
-		the source or target being append-only or immutable also went
-		here - if we check it for parent we could as well do it for
-		children.
-	* {affs,ext2,minix,sysv,ufs}/namei.c (do_*_rename):
-		Removed tests that went to VFS, it simplified the code big way.
-		Fixed a race in check for empty target - we should check for
-		extra owners _before_ checking for emptiness, not after it.
-	* {ext2,ufs}/namei.c (do_*_rename):
-		VERY nasty bug shot: if somebody mkdired /tmp/cca01234, went
-		there, rmdired '.', waited till somebody created a file with
-		the same name and said mv . /tmp/goodbye_sticky_bit... Well,
-		goodbye sticky bit. Down, not across!
-	* {minix,sysv}/namei.c (do_*_rename):
-		Incorrect check for other owners (i_count instead of d_count).
-		Fixed.
-	* vfat: Looks like the changes above fixed a bug in VFAT - this beast
-		used to allow renaming file over directory and vice versa.
-
-Wed Dec  9 08:00:27 1998  AV
-	* namei.c (VFS_rename): New function. It gets the same arguments as
-		->rename() method, does all checks and applies fs-specific
-		rmdir() method. It should be called with semaphores down
-		on both parents.
-	* include/linux/fs.h: Added VFS_rename
-	* kernel/ksyms.c: Added VFS_rename to export list (for NFSD).
-	* nfsd/vfs.c: Changed rename handling (switched to VFS_rename).
-
-Wed Dec  9 18:16:27 1998  AV
-	* namei.c (do_unlink): handling of sticky bit went here.
-	* {affs,ext2,minix,qnx4,sysv,ufs}/namei.c (*_unlink):
-		removed handling of sticky bit.
-	* qnx4/namei.c (qnx4_unlink):
-		Yet another inode leak. Fixed.
-
-Thu Dec 10 04:55:26 1998  AV
-	* {ext2,minix,sysv,ufs}/namei.c (*_mknod):
-		removed meaningless code handling attempts to mknod symlinks
-		and directories. VFS protects us from _that_ and if this code
-		would ever be called we'ld get a filesystem corruption.
-
-Thu Dec 10 16:58:50 1998  AV
-	* namei.c (do_rename): Fixed dentry leak that had been introduced by
-		the first round of rmdir fixes.
-
-Fri Dec 11 14:57:17 1998  AV
-	* msdos/namei.c (msdos_rmdir): Fixed race in emptiness check.
-
-Sat Dec 12 19:59:57 1998  AV
-	* msdos/namei.c (msdos_mkdir): Fixed the evil breakage introduced by
-		the changes of rmdir locking scheme. We shouldn't call
-		msdos_rmdir from there.
-
-Sun Dec 13 02:05:16 1998  AV
-	* namei.c (do_unlink):
-		Added new function: vfs_unlink, with the same arguments as
-		->unlink() method.
-	* kernel/ksyms.c: Made it exported.
-	* include/linux/fs.h: Added prototype.
-	* nfsd/vfs.c: Changed handling of unlink (switched to vfs_unlink)
-	* {ext2,ufs}/namei.c (*_unlink): moved handling of imm./append-only to
-		VFS.
-
-Wed Dec 16 06:10:04 1998  AV
-	* namei.c (may_create, may_delete): New inline functions.
-		They check whether creation/deletion is permitted.
-		Checks from other places of namei.c went there.
-		Looks like originally I misread permission-related stuff
-		both here and in nfsd. In particular, checks for
-		immutable are done in permission(). D'oh.
-	* unlink on directory should return -EISDIR, not -EPERM as it used to
-		do. Fixed.
-	* rmdir of immutable/append-only directory shouldn't be allowed. Fixed.
-
-Remains unfixed:
-	* rename's handling of races is, erm, not optimal. Looks like I know
-		what to do, but this thing needs some more cleanup - we can
-		take care of almost all races in VFS and be much more graceful
-		wrt locking. Moreover, it would give strong lookup atomicity.
-		But it's a lot of changes to lookup and dcache code, so it will
-		go after the fs drivers' cleanup.
-	* affs allows HARD links to directories. VFS is, to put it politely,
-		not too ready to cope with _that_. And I'm not sure it should
-		be - looks like they are pretty much similar to symlinks.
-	* truncate doesn't give a damn about IO errors and disk overflows (on
-		braindead filesystems). I've submitted a patch to Linus, but
-		looks like it wasn't applied.
-	* msdos: shouldn't we treat SYS as IMMUTABLE? Makes sense, IMHO.
-
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